3 Scriptures for Restful Meditations

Once more, the Lord is unaffected by time. When compared to eternity, a thousand years pass by as if nothing happened. Isaiah 57:15 says that God lives forever “One that inhabiteth eternity,” while man lives for days, weeks, months, and years.

Our concept of time and God’s concept of time are totally different. You may be wondering how do these Scriptures have anything to do with God taking a break? Did these Scriptures just not tell us that a day with the Lord is like a thousand years and a thousand years as one day? So, if God took a break, what would happen to humanity? Well for starters, evil would run amok. You think it is bad now!? Can you just imagine the evil running rampant across the land if God did not intervene? 

Prayers would not be answered, much less even heard. Miraculous healing would not take place. The concept of doing what is right versus doing what is wrong would be non-existent. The world would be in total chaos. I could only imagine what God would do to the world when He came back from His break. A massive flood, the earth pummeled with meteors, every volcano erupting, or maybe He would just wipe out everything and start over, just like wiping a chalkboard clean.

If we look in the book of John, Jesus said, 

That means in a time without our modern electricity, work could not be done. The day was the best time to work, but it was also short. Believers in Christ only have a limited amount of time on earth to complete the tasks that God has given us to do.

John 11:9, Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day?” If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

The understanding of God’s will is the “Day.” The lack of this knowledge is referred to as the “Night.” We are more likely to fall if we proceed in the dark. If we walk in His light, we will become children of the light, thereby displaying the truth and directing people toward God. Christians are to be the light bearers of Christ (John 12:35).

Christ has never and will never “Take a break” from us, so we should not be guilty of “taking a break” from Him.

Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

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Chris Swanson answered the call into the ministry over 20 years ago. He has served as a Sunday School teacher, a youth director along with his wife, a music director, an associate pastor, and an interim pastor. He is a retired Navy Chief Hospital Corpsman with over 30 years of combined active and reserve service. You can contact Chris here, and check out his work here.