A play on Words IDYLL

24 hours in this day: 14 hours of daylight today (if you only functioned from sunup to sunset)

10% of this time 1 hour and 14 minutes or 84 minutes…out of 840 minutes of daylight are spent on average in a church service per Sunday…or 84 minutes out of 10,080 minutes per week…or if you attend church services every week for 52 weeks a year 4,368 minutes out of roughly 524,160 minutes per year~ or 72.8 hours per year of 8,736 hours my friends that is less than 1% of your year spent in church!

You have all the time in the world!

the Idyll Idol

idyll

1. A short poem or prose piece depicting a picturesque scene or incident of idealized life.
2. A simple, happy, and peaceful scene or period of life.

We focus so much on recreation and leisure, we’ve forgotten how to rest!

SABBATH!

Sabbath = to cease from ordinary activity in order to enter God’s rest.

Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God. On that day no one in your household may do any work. This includes you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, your livestock, and any foreigners living among you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy. Exodus 20:8-11 (NLT)

Historical Biblical Observance:

1. No labor
2. No business
3. Less Food Preparation
4. No Firewood gathering nor kindling
5. No carrying heavy loads
6. Rest during harvest season, including the animals
7. A day set apart to God and He alone

What is Sabbath? A time set aside to allow God to restore your soul by doing nothing!

Busyness migrates to a life of hurry when we let it squeeze God out of our lives!

“Fatigue makes cowards of us all!” -Anonymous

A busy schedule does not produce a hurried soul and soul fatigue; a soul without Sabbath does!

“If you don’t come apart for a while, you will come apart in a while.” -Vance Havner

Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 (NLT)

“Come away with Me!” -Jesus

Carve out space and time where we find rest and healing for our souls in solitude.

Delight yourself in the Lord:

Delight yourself in what He has done!

Delight yourself in what He has made!

Delight yourself in what He has given! 

Delight yourself in who you are in Him! 

Delight yourself in celebration! 

S L O W  D O W N Sundays!