Serving a better master: trading busy for rest

As a business owner, I wear many hats. (Actually, I wear all the hats because I don’t have employees.) Like all of you who work in the home or out in the marketplace or ministry, that means there’s always a task that needs doing. 

Always. 

So, we continue “doing.” The alluring idea of getting ahead of our tasks list (or merely caught up), coupled with devices that make work accessible anywhere, anytime, causes us to work incessantly. But “ahead” and “caught up” are mirages that elude us from the distant horizon. 

Perhaps you, like me, enjoy (or are addicted to?) productivity and relish in goal-setting sessions and achievement—all of which make resting a challenge. Yet an inability to rest and take breaks from work makes for a life equivalent to that of an indentured servant, subject to the masters of

  • materialism,
  • a need for success (as a “perfect” parent or star performer at work),
  • the reputational currency of being busy, or
  • the exacting requirements of our managers and bosses. 

But God doesn’t want us to be enslaved to anything but righteousness and His love:

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