From God's perspective, rest is not a suggestion--it's a commandment, a necessity. Contemporary culture has established a norm that working yourself to death is the best life to live; it proves your worth and is how you earn love and/or respect. But God, in His wisdom and mercy, has determined that His people need to rest, so that we don't grow convinced that our works and efforts are what sactify us, but rather His work. 

BIBLE VERSES:  Exodus 23:10-12; 31: 13-17