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Faith, Health & Healing Devotional - Day 5

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The Concept of Rest

“Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made” – Genesis 2:3

John and Charles Wesley grew up in a family with 19 children. Their itinerant father was hardly at home leaving the responsibilities for these children with the mother, Susanna Wesley. Imagine a day in the life of a mother with 19 children.

In one of her letters to her absent husband, she wrote “I am neither a man nor a minister….I resolved to begin with my own children; in which I observe the following method: I take such a proportion of time as I can spare every night to discourse with each child apart. On Monday I talk with Molly, on Tuesday with Hetty, Wednesday with Nancy, Thursday with Jacky, Friday with Patty, Saturday with Charles.”

She home-schooled all the children and ensured they started learning on the day after their fifth birthday. She would ensure they led devotions daily and started a family devotion which later caught the fancy of neighbors who requested to join. The children got good education and learnt both Greek and Latin.

Little wonder she raised John Wesley, one of the greatest clergyman the world has come to know and Charles Wesley, who wrote several hymns used in worship services around the world.

A day in the life of a mother of one child can be so frustrating without a plan and strong determination to keep to the plan, which is what Susanna described as method. She was named the mother of Methodism.

The best gift to a deserving hard working individual is the ability to sit back and access all you have been doing. One of the Hebrew translations for the word rest is satisfaction. It makes little sense to work all day, thru the weeks and all year round without a proper evaluation against what we set out to do.  It will be frustrating and at the end of the day offers little or no satisfaction.

Whenever there is so much work and labor without adequate rest, poor planning is present. Whatever job or vocation anyone engages that does not permit the worker to have sufficient time to rest must have been poorly laid out from inception.

Rest requires plan both for the task, job or project and also for rest itself.  Don’t spend your health trying to get wealth, raise the children, build a career or a ministry. Your poor planning will show when the wealth is acquired, the kids are all grown, you reach the peak of that career or the ministry has gone global and you are now battling life threatening conditions.

God never worked that way. He laid out a plan for His works and on each day, He evaluated the work done against the initial plans and the scripture confirmed God was satisfied with each day’s work. God would later evaluate the work done on the entire six days on the Sabbath day. This empowered (blessed) the work done.  

You must rest daily (a minimum of 6 hours sleep is recommended), weekly (one day of the week) and annually (3 weeks of vacation minimum). This requires planning and the best time to start is now!

Confession: Thank you Lord for the blessedness of rest. I receive this blessing over my work in Jesus name.

 © 2016. Nutraceutical Health Solutions. www.nutraceuticalng.com

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