And thus we will finish the heavens and the earth, and all the hosts of them. And the Gods said among themselves: On the seventh time we will end our work, which we have counseled; and we will rest on the seventh time from all our work which we have counseled. And the Gods concluded upon the seventh time, because that on the seventh time they would rest from all their works which they (the Gods) counseled among themselves to form; and sanctified it. And thus were their decisions at the time that they counseled among themselves to form the heavens and the earth. (Abraham 5: 1-3)
Steven Covey gained international fame with his 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. One of those habits was that a man should regularly rest from his normal work/routine, what Covey called "sharpen the saw." If you don't take time to do that you will soon burn out and become locked into a life that is no longer fulfilling. Covey didn't invent that idea. He learned it as a universal truth from God.
God later taught Moses that this 7th day was hallowed because He rested on the 7th day. It is the 4th of the 10 commandments:
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20: 8-11)
It is important that we keep this commandment not only because God commanded it but because it is in our best interest to do so.
Have a blessed Sabbath everyone!
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