Sabbath has taught me many things over the small time we have practiced it as a discipline. One of my greatest takeaways is that I’m not really that important. That might sound disingenuous, I don’t intend it to be. It’s really easy for me to get in a dangerous mindset of believing that everything depends on me. I think I like believing that the world is on my shoulders. When I am needed because I am capable then I am loved. It’s a really unhealthy belief that creeps in to my life.
Sabbath shows me weekly that I am not that important. I can shut everything down for 24 hours and no one really misses me. The world doesn’t fall apart while I am gone. Turns out that everything wasn’t on my shoulders after all. I am not as important as I want to believe I am. When you work with that in mind, work becomes less of an idol. It becomes a means to building the kingdom of God not a means of glorifying almighty ME.
In AJ Swoboda’s episode we talk about his book Subversive Sabbath. He brings out a lot of these ideas in this episode. Check out what he has to say about how sabbath changes his work.
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