As I heard my friend Jimmy Dodd say in a message one time, “We do not rest because our work is done. We rest because God commands it.”4 And God doesn’t command it because He is a killjoy; He does so because He loves us. He knows our design, and He knows what we need. We need to stop. There will always be work to be done. There will always be another tomorrow to plan for. If I am not careful (and I have been guilty of this), I will rush past the fun and family time of the present in order to get to tomorrow. And once I get to tomorrow, I won’t really be there because I will be hurrying to the
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