Slaves can’t rest. Slaves can’t take a day off to recuperate, reflect, and enjoy God. Slaves must work—either to pay off a debt, to please their master, or to simply stay alive. And most of us are slaves—because we enslave ourselves to the American Dream, the boss, our kids, or even (and worse) to earning God’s favor. We’re so often working to prove something, or to pay someone, or to get the promotion.
