”Then Jesus said to them, ‘The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.’” - Mark 2:27
During this Co-Vid 19 pandemic season, there are a lot of us who can’t wait to get our lives back to “normal”. We are racing to get back to normal, but what if “normal” wasn’t working? Could it be that one of the gifts God has given us during this time is the understanding that how we were living wasn’t the best for us? What if God has allowed us to slow down and gain a new perspective? In this season, let’s begin to seek God and allow Him to show us a better way to live.
From the very beginning of time, God has not just encouraged us to stop and rest—He has commanded it. Sabbath, or “Shabbat” in Hebrew, literally means to “stop." “Sabbath” is a resistance to the pace and push of our lives. A statement that declares, ”This is enough. STOP and appreciate it.” It is a resting, a worshipping of God, a remembering of what God has done, and a resisting to the cultural pressure to “go, go, go."