Rest

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 16th of May, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to Genesis 2:2:

”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.” 

Then we go straight to the New Testament to the Gospel of Mark 6:31:

And He said to them, “Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” 

This is Jesus speaking. Now, if God rested on the seventh day, I’m talking about the Creator of heaven and earth, who created everything that you can see with one word (In the beginning was the Word), if He rested on the seventh day, how much more should we mere mortals also rest? C. H. Spurgeon, the great Baptist preacher, wrote a letter back to his congregation when he was resting and recovering, probably from exhaustion; he said, ”By doing less, I hope to accomplish more.” Are you listening to this message my dear friend? Well I am, because I think it applies to me maybe more than some of you. That is not a joke actually. It’s very serious. It’s time to smell the roses. What does that mean? Some of us are so busy that we don’t even see the roses, never mind smell them.

They say - don’t quote me -  but when the French Revolution took place in France and the whole metric system came into being, they decided to work for ten days and then rest, but it didn’t last long because the very draught animals, the horses, were dropping down in the streets and dying from exhaustion, because we have been designed to work for six days and then to rest for one day.

I really want to encourage you to look at your own lives very carefully because I’ve had to do the very same thing myself. We can make many excuses. You know, I know men that are holding down two and three jobs at one time. They are working themselves to death and your children want you, not what you can give them. They want you to spend time with them.  So today, let’s re-evaluate how we are living our lives and give God first place, then your family second place, then your work, your vision, your ministry, third place.

Jesus bless you and have a restful day, 
Goodbye.