Exodus 35:1–3
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is profoundly confused about the basics. Our generation has forgotten the fundamental grammar of reality, and as a result, we are trying to write a coherent sentence without nouns or verbs. We want a society of justice without a standard of justice. We want human rights without a divine right-giver. The modern world is a frantic, exhausted, and restless place precisely because it has rejected the pattern of work and rest that God has woven into the very fabric of creation itself. The Sabbath is not an arbitrary rule, a piece of religious furniture that we can discard when it becomes inconvenient. It is part of the created order, like marriage or gravity. You can defy gravity, but you cannot do so for long and expect a good outcome. In the same way, a society that rejects the Sabbath principle will eventually find itself in a state of perpetual, wearying motion, a hamster wheel of production and consumption that leads nowhere but to burnout and despair.