Our Favorite Proverbs: Proverbs 23:4, Just Stop
by Marilynn Chadwick
"Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness." Proverbs 23:4
It's been said that Americans are the only people who worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship. Maybe that's why keeping Sabbath is so hard. Many of us enjoy feeling productive, and taking a day off seems to slow us down.
The word "Sabbath," or sabat in Hebrew, simply means "to cease, desist, rest." Put another way, Sabbath means "stop." The very first use of sabat, translated "rest," in the Bible is in Genesis: "By the seventh day God had finished the work he had…
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