Burn baby burn

I’ve been working way too hard lately and it all caught up with me on Sunday. I super crashed and did little to nothing all day long and mostly just lounged on the couch and napped. Six days a week I’ve been getting up and going to work anywhere between 1:30-3:30 AM and I usually work until about 6:00-7:00 PM with a short power nap of about a half hour around lunchtime.

This Sunday I slept until 7 AM and my “power nap” was taken intermittingly throughout the entire day. Usually I work on Christ based projects such as my book, WFTD, or the Honey Lake Christian Youth Center on Sundays before and after church, but this Sunday I just didn’t have any energy and didn’t even go to church.

Today I feel better. Yawn.

I don’t understand why I want to work so hard. I tried retirement and was never so bored in all my life. Hobbies are fine and I love to hunt, fish, play guitar, travel, etc. but at some point I need to give my mind some intellectual stimulation. Coming up with a great idea and then working hard to make it a reality is what stimulates me. Through the years I have occupied my time doing my alms, building numerous companies, houses, and buildings. I have written books, mentored and trained employees, and finished projects innumerable.

I realize that I will not be taking any of it with me when I go “toe up”, but that doesn’t bother me, because that’s not why I work so hard and long. I do it for the sheer joy that I receive out of building something. I was thinking yesterday that I hate to burn an entire day resting because God has given us so much opportunity on this earth and so little time to take advantage of it, that I don’t want to waste even one day of it.

Then God gently reminded me that rest is part of His plan for us and in fact He has directly commanded us in one of the “Big Ten” to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. God rested on the seventh day and so should we.

Ok, but that was yesterday and today is a brand new day just brimming with all kinds of things to do. Let’s get hopping this morning folks! Burn baby burn!

Exodus 20:8
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.