In addition to promoting our products and our company, an important purpose of Walker Talk is to communicate ways to success for our readers. “Work hard and play hard” as the mantra for successful living tells the popular culture in the USA. In our family and our company, we believe that “rest and worship” are being overlooked and ignored by many as an important part of successful living; living life as it was meant to be lived.
This thinking is based on our belief in God as our creator and believing the biblical account of creation. It is accepting that the One who made us has made ways of living that are best for us.This is ancient wisdom, but it endures.
What do we mean by rest? First of all, rest in this sense is not recreation, sleeping or “doing your own thing.” Rest is stopping production and the production of livelihood every seventh day. It is a day when we stop and honor our Creator for making us and making the world (how wonderful is His workmanship!). Our rest from production acknowledges His rest from production on the seventh day of creation.
And about worship? Ancient tradition couples the seventh day rest with worship. Worship in this tradition is setting a regular, habitual time and place to meet with others of like faith to purposefully honor our Creator and to seek His ways for us. While we can (and should) individually worship God every day, there is something powerful and wonderful that happens when a group of people gather with purpose to praise God and acknowledge Him. I have found no other experience in life that compares.
The last point is discipline. Rest and worship need to be pursued as a discipline.These activities are not always pleasurable, immediately satisfying, gratifying or rewarding, nor are we naturally inclined, yet they are good for us. In the same way as physical exercise and training is a proven, beneficial discipline for our body, so are rest and worship a beneficial discipline for our soul.
That’s the end of the sermon. I hope many of you find the encouragement intended in these words, shared from our experience.
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