Thou Shalt Do Nothing

What?

What was my first question that flew through my mind when I heard this. Can this actually be one of God's rules? What is Andy smoking when he wrote part four of the series The Sinai Code? Going a little way into the sermon I got where he was going with this. He was doing the fourth rule,

"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." Exodus 20:8-11

This is a rule that I myself have broken many times in the past even though it was drummed into me at a young impressionable age. Yes I understand the concept of what God was saying by keeping one day a week aside but what stands out for me is the word Remember. Remember. Remember. We as humans find it easy to forget the things that we feel are not good for us. God took forty years trying to get His people to remember the Sabbath but they tried to find loopholes in resting in God. Today it is no different. God in His infinite wisdom knew that we will become so busy that we forget putting aside a day that is holy.

The question that was asked way back then at the foot of Sinai is the same today, how can we just stop for a day and do nothing? If we miss a day we will lose money and our families will suffer. Andy gives us the answer why we find it difficult to take a day off. He says that we do not trust God. We don't trust God to provide what we need if we were to stop for a day.

Remember that it is in God that we must trust not our own selves.