Jan 29, 2021 … Our Rush Culture

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 29 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Kari Job singing … Be Still My Soul …  poignantly singing how we, in Christ, can rest our souls in our relationship with our Lord. 

A Sabbath attitude ... 

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Highlight Passage:   Deuteronomy 5:13-14a [ESV] ... 

13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.  

… God’s command to rest, remembering how He delivered God’s people from the drudgery of slavery.            

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Highlight Passage [Context] : …  Deuteronomy 5:12-15 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Moses, lays out His commandment to rest one day out of six.  

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 37:7   [ESV] ... 

15 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in His way, over the man who carries out evil devices! 

…  We are to avoid the ways of the world because we are to wait patiently and rest in our relationship with the Lord. 

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 30:15   [ESV] ... 

15 For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” 

…  Isaiah declares for God that we find our rest and strength when we trust in the Lord.

Reference Passage: … Matthew 11:28-30   [ESV] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Jesus calls us to yoke ourselves to His strength when we’re weakened or tired.    

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 4:9-12   [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK … 

…  God’s word declares that we can trust and rest in God’s word <b>(see photo)</b> which is His Sword of Truth.    

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Sheridan Voysey, AT THIS LINK uses an illustration of what he calls a ”culture of rush”, where we expect businesses and people to almost crash-and-burn to wait on our needs. 

Another example is the fast food industry, which has led to what I’ve referred to in our culture as the “MacDonalds mentality;” and it goes against what God has commanded and what the Lord has provided for His people and His family.  And when you take in God’s truth on the matter [see Scriptures above], we realize that rushing about, … 24/7 …, ignores God’s command to observe a “sabbath” in our lives and to trust that He will, … as Jesus said, … give us His strength when we’re willing to yoke ourselves to Him (see Matt 11:28-30).  

And so, my fellow Christian, how about every day, as in the attached photo, we start each day by resting on God’s word and by trusting in His Truth.  It’s a good way to start each day with a Sabbath attitude.  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for calling us out to rest in You.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me, … today … to have a sabbath rest in God’s word … and then, … EVERY DAY!     … Amen

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