When Joshua led the Israelites to take Jericho down, they marched around the city once for six days and then seven times on the seventh day. Needless to say they obviously didn't observe the sabbath rest that week, but they were doing what God had asked them to- they were doing His work. It wasn't wrong to skip the day of rest, but God later asked them to take a day of rest afterward. They ignored Him and fell into sin because they weren't in tune with God and what He wanted them to do... they had been listening to themselves for too long.
Now read the passage :-)
Hebrews 4:8-11
8For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. 9There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; 10for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. 11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.
We all need to take a time to rest in God.... not sleep especially, but remain in God's rest. It's a different kind of rest where you just take the time to listen to Him, rekindle the relationship, and rejuvenate your passion for what you're doing.
That's where it's like my family. We spend every 'sabbath' doing what God has asked us to do, which isn't wrong, but then we need to take some time afterward to renew ourselves and rest in God so that we have peace in what we are doing.
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