Thursday, July 26, 2007

God Said, God Did, God Rested

God Said, God Did, God Rested
Then God said,
"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them,
"Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
Then God said,
"I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food."
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
And there was evening, and there was morning-the sixth day.
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all his work.
And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. "1 Most of the sisters I am blessed to know have a problem. It is in fact, the same problem that I have. We don't know how to rest. Busyness is so entrenched in us; so pervasive that to some extent we have grown to accept it as "just the way it is". Thus, we continue to "be busy".
I don't think any of us would be so grossly bold as to think or say our busyness is different from God's. So my challenge...no, my encouragement to all of us "busy sistas" is simply this. REST.
We are body, soul and spirit and we all need to rest. Yes even you! Rest! And what better place than at the feet of Jesus?
Stephanie

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