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Doing a series on the Ten Commandments and today we come to the fourth:
Thought it Would be Easy
When I was preparing for this series a while back I did background work on each commandment and I thought this one would be easy based on what I was learning.
But then as I prepared this past week, it was very difficult.
And then I remembered that I had originally thought this one would be easy and I jogged my memory to remember why I thought it would be easier.
And when I remembered that specific reason why this commandment should be one of the easier ones, the preparation didn’t become easy, but everything clicked.
I will share later on why I had believed this commandment would be easy to understand, easy to embrace.
Anxious World—Becoming Parent Changes Everything
We live in an anxious, worried, culture.
It is a hurried culture.
This is especially relevant because school is starting.
When you become a parent everything changes.
Things that used to be simple are now suddenly complex.
Like leaving your house to go places.
Leaving the House With Kids
When you have kids it becomes the most stressful part of the day where the kids turn into turtles and the parents turn into monsters.
A Mom got it down to a science: “Put on shoes and jackets exactly 8 minutes before you need to leave”—just enough cushion to get to school on time.
We are hurried.
Carl Jung in a bit of hyperbole said:
“Hurry isn’t of the devil, hurry is the devil.”
-Carl Jung
We are merely moving shadows, and all of our busy rushing ends in nothing.
~Psalm 36: 9a (NLT)
Tell parents that it goes fast.
See parents rushing and irritated at young kids.
If I could go back to even the times of rushing I would.
And I wouldn’t hurry.
Because many times our irritation at our kids and our irritation in general isn’t so we are on time, but our irritation reveals our idols.
The idol of busyness, of hurry.
Of activity.
Busyness as Status Symbol
How are you doing?
Busy.
It’s a status symbol.
Used to be that having leisure time was a mark of success.
Now it is the opposite.
And it isn’t just hurry but everything related to it
-anxiety
-worry
-angst
-regret
Archeologist and Ancient Tribe to Site in Mountains
-insisted they would go no further—and for no apparent reason, suddenly started moving again…after this happened a few times, he got upset...
-“we had been moving too fast and had to wait for our souls to catch up with our bodies”
And that isn’t a bad thought.
Waiting for our souls to catch up with our bodies.
And that is at its core what this commandment promises.
Do you rest long enough and is the rest of the spiritual quality that you allow for your soul to catch up with your body?
We are so hurried.
What is the soul?
It’s the most important part of who you are.
It’s the invisible part of who you are.
It is the supernatural part of who you are.
It is the spiritual core of who you are.
Sam Harris talking about being outside of yourself.
Objectively.
You don’t have a soul, you have a body.
You ARE a soul.
~CS Lewis
The soul is what continues to exist after you die.
Irony is that we Give a Soul Nurturing Commandment Rules
The fourth commandment, remember the sabbath day, is all about resting your soul.
Nourishing your soul.
So it is ironic that we take a commandment that is designed to nourish and rest our souls, that promises rest for our souls, and we turn it into a soul crushing commandment.
We see rules…college dorm and vacuuming.
Kids and legalistic parents.
You have the right to make those rules…but you also have a responsibility to nourish their souls.
Shared great memories of Grandparents house, but I also have a very bad memory.
Eagles/Raiders Superbowl
My parents went away that weekend.
We will come back that in a minute.
Austin living in their living room.
All the greats.
Namath, Bradshaw, Cowboys.
Mean Joe Green.
And then I heard the sound.
The clip clop of high heeled shoes.
Usually that is a great sound as a kid because it means your parents are going out for the night.
This time it was a soul crushing sound.
Preacher preached extra long.
Glad they lost because if they had won, never would have forgiven.
Parents were at a conference.
Pastors watching the game.
Amazing how inconsistent we are.
Watching football is a form of rest.
What?
Missing the whole point.
And it becomes soul crushing instead of rest for your soul.
You say, but isn’t that what the commandment says?
Let’s look.
So remember Sunday to keep it holy.
Today is the Sabbath.
Right?
Wrong.
Verse 9:
Which is the seventh day?
Saturday.
What is today?
Sunday.
What do you do when Jews and Seventh Day Adventists who still observe the Sabbath on Saturday say that we don’t follow the Bible?
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