“Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.”
The Rest
This verse names a comprehensive scope, worth examining directly, ox, ass, handmaid’s son, stranger, all included, worth holding as this movement’s own practical picture, genuine rest extended beyond yourself alone to everyone and everything genuinely within your own actual sphere of responsibility.
This is worth applying against however much your own practice of rest, if genuinely present, has remained narrowly personal, without this described, wider extension, worth considering whoever and whatever within your own actual household or responsibility might also, genuinely need this same rest you are learning to practice.
Notice the stranger specifically included, worth examining this detail directly, rest extended even beyond your own immediate household to those genuinely outside it, worth holding as needed correction against however much genuine rest has remained exclusively private, without this described, wider, generous extension.
Consider today whoever within your own actual sphere, family, employees, even the stranger genuinely present in your own life, might also need this same rest you are learning to practice, and extend it deliberately, following this verse’s own comprehensive, practical instruction, not keeping this discovery narrowly to yourself.
Practice Rest
- Consider who within your own household or responsibility might also need genuine rest.
- Extend rest today to someone beyond yourself, following this verse’s own comprehensive instruction.
- Notice whether your own practice of rest has remained narrowly personal, missing this wider extension.
Prayer
Lord, let rest extend beyond myself, to my household, and even to the stranger genuinely present in my life, following your own comprehensive, practical instruction. Amen.
Carry this today
Genuine rest extends beyond yourself to everyone within your actual sphere of responsibility.