I have traces of a feeling that I was failure today and I hate that feeling. My wife gave me several hours to do some critical business work and in spite of good, focused effort I just did not accomplish enough. The stressful thing is my Mon-Fri work week is generally so busy that to have part of a Saturday to accomplish important business things is hugely valuable. I had one of those days today and not-enough got done.
So, today seemed generally like a failure. Men are so tied to our work and to achievement through work and I am no different. In an effort to accomplish more some men work, whether on occasion or regularly, 7-days a week. I think that is a mistake for the Christian man.
God himself set an example of working 6-days, then resting a day. One of the Ten Commandments says to not work one day every week. And later, Jesus said this one day off a week principal was made for us.
Taking a day to rest when you have much more to do and shutting work down when its screaming loudly at you for more attention takes a real commitment. For example it was hard for me to stop working 20 minutes ago when I could have gone another 3 hours easily but its late and I need rest and tomorrow is Sunday which is the day I go to church, shut off work, and spend time with my wife and kids.
So, if I fail today I choose to trust God that he'll make it work out for me as I trust him with my day of rest tomorrow.
G'nite folks
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