OUR DAILY BREAD : WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

[cimi]

May 30
Sunday


WHAT DOES
IT TAKE?

READ:
Genesis 2:1-7
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Six days you shall do
your work, and on the
seventh day you shall
rest. __Exodus 23:12
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Today's technology allows some people to work 24/7. We can bring our work home or take it on vacation. Work is ever-present with us--except when the electricity goes off.

An ice storm last winter covered several states in a thick glasslike glaze. Trees and branches fell, blocking roads and keeping people home. Power lines fell, leaving people in cold darkness, unable to accomplish anything that required electricity.

Whenever something like this interrupts my life, I realize how important my own work is to me. Without it, I feel unimportant, unproductive ,and useless. But God doesn't want work to be that important to us, and we shouldn't need a power outage to get us to stop. In the Old Testament, God had a plan for getting His people to stop and pay attention to Him. It was called Sabbath. On the seventh day of the week, they were to stop their work (Ex. 23:12).

Although New Testament believers aren't required to keep this law, rest is still important. Practicing a day of rest can keep us from the faulty belief that our work is more important than God's.

What does it take to make you stop and pay attention to God?

__Julie Ackerman Link
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`````````````He gives me work that I may seek His rest,````````````
````````````He gives me strength to meet the hardest test;``````````
``````````````````And as I walk in providential grace,``````````````
```````````````I find that joy goes with me, at God's pace.``````````
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If we do not come apart and rest awhile,
we may just plain come apart. __Havner

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Genesis 2:1-7**************

1 Thus the heavens and the
earth, and all the host of
them, were finished. 2 And
on the seventh day God
ended His work which He
had done, and He rested on
the seventh day from all His
work which He had done.

3 Then God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified
it, because in it He rested
from all His work which
God had created and made.

4 This is the history of the
heavens and the earth when
they were created, in the
day that the LORD God
made the earth and the
heavens, 5 before any plant
of the field was in the earth
and before any herb of the
field had grown. For the
LORD God had not caused it
to rain on the earth, and
there was no man to till the
ground; 6 but a mist went
up from the earth and
watered the whole face of
the ground.

7 And the LORD God
formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath
of life; and man became a
living being.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Like a potter, God shaped man from clay (Isa. 64:8) and breathed into
him the breath of life (Gen. 2:7). Man is the only creature that has the
"breath of God," setting him apart from other creatures God made,
for only man is made in the image of God (1:27). Man is a living
being, literally a "living soul," with spiritual awareness of the Creator
and wiTh the capacity to have a personal relationship with Him
(Job 32:8; 38:36). __SIM KAY TEE