Sabath

Ferris Beulers day off.

Probably one of the greatest movies ever made. His life is every high school students dream. Pretty girl, popular and above all amazingly confident in all that he does. There is a line from the movie where Ferris (what kind of a name is ferris?) says “Life comes at you pretty fast. If you dont stop and look around once in a while you might miss it.” I like ferris. By no means do i neglect my duties as a husband, father and pastor, but i do like to take a sabath day.

Rob Bell in his book Velvet Elivis says that a sabath is a day “Where i produce nothing”. Sounds kind of weird when you put it that way. So much of our lives revolve around the fact that we need to be “productive”, but on the sabath we need to be unproductive so that we can be productive with our other 6 days. Listen, if God rested on the 7th day….what makes you think we can handle working 7 days a week?

Leah and i try very hard to make our day off a restful one where we have fun together. Rei told me (and how factual this is i dont know) that zoo keepers have figured out that if they keep their animals constantly on display they will go crazy. So they worked with the animals and found out that the longest without a break they could go was 6 days…Hmmm. Thats interesting. God create 6 days and rested. The animals (that God created) can only go 6 days. We need a day of rest so that our other 6 can go real far.