sabbath rest

I go back to New Community because it challenges me. I hate the awkward "greeting your neighbors" every week, but at the same time I know it's good for me. I guess that's how one of the ways you connect with people in church when you don't go to college anymore. IT forces me to know my place, that I am in a place of ease, where many responsibilities and duties are hidden from me or made easy for me.

In addition to this though, Pastor Peter always challenges the congregation (and himself). Today he spoke about Sabbath rest.

Deut 5:15
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

God told the Israelites to observe the Sabbath, not to force upon this day onto them, but to remind them that they CAN rest. When they were slaves, they could not rest when they wanted to, but now God gives them a Sabbath day to remind that they are no longer slaves to anything. That they are free to rest.

Not applicable, I'm not a slave right?

Then why don't I rest on the Sabbath. Why do I feel so inclined to work, when I am called to rest? It's because I'm a slave. A self-induced slave, but a slave nonetheless. A slave to my parent's expectations, a slave to my personal glory, slave to money and feeling of worth attaining a job/internship. I'm a slave.

I'm a slave who doesn't trust. If I believed God were in control and had a plan for me, then I wouldn't feel so worried and so burdened by these upcoming interviews.

Sabbath rest...it's really about who you trust in.