The Principle of Rest | John Giftah

0:01 Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy

0:06 place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and

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0:40 International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. When you think

0:53 off the scriptural aspect of how the Bible says that after God had created the

1:00 heavens and the earth and everything in it, the Bible says that he took

1:03 rest right. And also you have to understand that you know one of the

1:08 verses that really if you see in the Old Testament, of course, it's

1:12 in Liberticus twenty three, verse three. This is what it says, and

1:17 I'm reading from the nib version. It says there are six days when you

1:21 may work, but on the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest a

1:25 day of sacred assembly. You shall not do any work wherever you live.

1:30 It's a sabbath to the Lord. Now you have to understand something very fortunt

1:34 you. You may say, John, that's in the Old Testament. We

1:36 are not bound by these laws. You have to understand, Yes, we

1:40 are not bound by the law, and we cannot presume to say, you

1:45 know what, this is the particular day of the week that has to be

1:48 observed as the Sabbath. But you also have to understand that there are certain

1:53 principles that we can understand from the scripture, even when you look at the

1:57 Old Testament, where there were certain things that the or that told them,

2:00 you know, for the children of Israel when he said, for example,

2:02 he said, you know, don't eat the meat of pigs for example,

2:07 right, Um, the reason being it is not a healthy choice. It's

2:13 not good for your health in the long run. That's the reason. So

2:15 if you refrain from eating poor you're preventing your body from getting affected. That

2:22 that's the that's the thing. But it's not gonna be in a place today

2:25 where you say, you know, that's an Old Testament thing. Yes,

2:29 it's an Old Testament thing. But then it's a good principle to follow.

2:31 Right, If if you eat a lot of polk, it's going to affect

2:36 your health, So that way, it's it's a better option to refrain from

2:40 eating folks. So kind of like that. You know, there are certain

2:44 principles, even if it's in the Old Testament, even if it's under the

2:46 leptical law. If if there are certain principles, if you inculcating your everyday

2:52 life, it can help you. You get what I'm saying, it will

2:54 help you. And you know, today in this world, there is so

3:00 much happening, right, everybody is so much on a rat race in life.

3:05 You know, a pillar to post going after deadlines. Maybe if you're

3:09 studying, maybe you have a you're just getting done with one course examination and

3:15 then suddenly the next project shows up, or or maybe you're at work,

3:20 you just finish one deadline and then some other new assignment comes and then you

3:23 have a constant need to prove yourself or stand on the top of the game,

3:30 and you know, so on and so for this this is constant rat

3:32 race and mad race in life. You know, or even if you talk

3:35 about being a social media influencer, or you put one post and then you

3:38 get a certain kind of uh, you know response, and then you kind

3:42 of put similar posts that will garner the response that you're desiring for. It's

3:47 a constant thing. It's not like once done and done once and for all.

3:52 It's not like that, right, We need to constantly keep doing and

3:54 and and in that there's so much of burnouts, you know, those So

4:00 many people are experiencing burnouts in their life, and so many people are going

4:02 through moments when they're so frustrated they just don't have the inspiration anymore. You

4:09 know, just a while ago, I was talking to somebody and she said,

4:12 I went through the season when I was filled with burnouts. I love

4:15 this job, but I just couldn't stand to even seeing my laptop when I

4:19 was going through the season of burnouts. You know, I can imagine how

4:23 many people today we are experiencing that burnout in their life because of this misconception

4:29 where people think that taking rest is only when you are done with all your

4:32 job and then rest. In today's world, it's like take rest after you

4:38 die. You know. It's in a little sense, it's like that.

4:41 It's like a constant thing. You keep working, keep working, keep working.

4:45 You know this this idea that if you rest when you still have something

4:48 to do, or when you rest when you're not actually tired, that means

4:51 you're just lazy. No, there's a principle. God did not take rest

4:57 because he was tired. There's a principle that God was showing us that,

5:00 you know, when you'd set aside a day to rest, when you're saying

5:05 God, you know what, yes, I have all these priorities. It

5:11 No, you're not be a particular day. Okay. That's where you try

5:15 to understand in today's context. In the New Testament, there's a principle maybe

5:18 in May or may not be a particular day, but at least take some

5:21 time out to rest, take some time out to you know. Of course

5:28 most of us go to church on Sundays. You know, if you don't,

5:30 I encourage you to do that. But take some time out, just

5:34 rest, take rest, just rest from your works. And I pray that

5:41 you know, when you make that your commitment, where you're not going to

5:44 be, you know, just on this constant mad race in life. But

5:48 rather take some you know, uh, you know, like a dedicated time

5:54 to rest, take care of your body, take care of your health.

5:57 You know, sometimes I notice in recent times, when I started taking care

6:00 off my you know, physical body, you know, my body starts functioning

6:05 better. And I'm telling you, guys, just so much we can learn

6:09 from these things. And I pray that you will come to that place,

6:12 but you will take that definite step to take some time to rest. Amen.

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