Blowout
This Week's Theme: Pacing Yourself
Monday, May 28, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest" (Mark 6:31).
Bonus Reading:Exodus 20:8-11
When I was a young man, I worked as a roughneck on an oil-drilling rig in Louisiana. The job was brutal. One day we hit a pocket of high-pressure gas and had a blowout. Crude oil blew up through the drill pipe and sprayed all over the rig and the workers. A blowout is dangerous, for a spark can set the oil and gas on fire.
We kept a safety valve handy for just such emergencies. The valve is about two feet long and can withstand 25,000 pounds of pressure. The trick was to position it over the open drillpipe and screw it into the pipe while oil was spewing out. When the blowout happened, we all began asking, "Where's the safety valve?" We couldn't find it! Finally someone located it, and we got it on and closed. The blowout was over.
[Today's Bonus Reading] tells us about another kind of "safety valve." It's called rest. Leisure time can keep us from blowing our tops! These verses encourage us to work six days and then take a day off from our labor. A day off is an opportunity for relaxation and recreation. Think of it as time for "re-creation."
Don Aycock in God's Man
Respond:
Does my schedule allow me breaks for slowing down, shifting gears, and recharging mentally and physically?
Thought to Apply:
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
Logan Pearsall Smith (writer)
Adapted from: God's Man (Kregel, 1998)
For your convenience, God's Man is available in the ChristianityToday.com bookstore. 1 of 1
Lord, help me live my life as Jesus did, with deep purpose but not under pressure.
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