Rest Follows Work

April 11

Our country has taken a downhill turn toward socialism. Our leaders, who seem to live in a vacuum where values and morals and Constitutional law are concerned, have presumed ‘rights’ that our founders never dreamed would be assumed by those in power.

In so doing, they are flying in the face of not only those wise men who set up the greatest government that has ever existed on the planet but they have also stuck their finger in the eye of God and His law. God places a high premium on work. When the first arrivals at Jamestown set up a socialistic agenda, it failed.

When their leaders implemented the Biblical admonition, “He who will not work shall not eat” II Thessalonians 3:10, the colony not only survived, it prospered. A person who has a vested interest in the performance of a task will be much more likely to give himself to it than the one who simply reaps the benefit of the labor of others.

As we should individually labor for the good things of life, so should we labor for the good things of eternity. In the pursuit of the good, the Lord recognizes our need for rest. We must, according to Exodus 10:9, 10, “Labor six days … but the seventh day, the Sabbath, is unto the Lord your God.” His scheme of things is that rest follows work, not that rest supersedes work.