Freedom
Do your work in six days and rest on the seventh day... ~ Exodus 34:21a (CEV)
God paid a great price for you. So don’t become slaves of anyone else. ~ 1 Corinthians 7:23 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
God wants us to be free from enslavement to unending work and people who want to control us for their own gain.
PRAYER:
Thank you, Lord, for setting us free. You have freed us from never-ending work and from control freaks. But I don't do enough to actually rest and celebrate that freedom. Working without rest makes me feel important. Please free my mind from that drivenness. Help me to see what is really important to you and the world as you are re-establishing it. I'm going to honor you by celebrating sabbath -- your gift of freedom. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
