Rest For Your Soul - Jonathan Pickens

0:24 And what would happen is I would be working not that long, maybe five minutes in, and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, things started getting a little bit slower. And just small, menial tasks, trying to open the internet, trying to open the Notes app, trying to do something productive. And then I would get this little guy that would pop up on the screen. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Anybody seen this spinning wheel of death before? Yes. If you get this sucker on your computer, you're not doing anything that day. It is absolutely miserable. You're going to have to restart the whole thing. And this was happening to me like every other day. And so I finally went and visited our tech team and tried to ask, hey, what am I doing wrong here? They said, well, let me take a look at your computer. They pulled up my computer and they said, wow, what? Did you fix the problem? I said, no, you have a lot of applications running. I said, I do? Like, yeah, yeah, it's been going on in the background. When do you close those out? Well, I got my computer about five years ago, so I guess it's been about five years. Like, yeah, you need to close out of those things because they're always going, always running. And when they're always running in the background pretty soon, even the little things will take a long time and start to feel heavy for your computer. So what you need to do is shut it down, close out of it. And then once you restart it, it will be able to function properly again. And I'm sure many of us know where I'm going with this, but the idea is in life, it is easy to always be running.

2:08 And pretty soon, if we don't take breaks, if we're not stopping, if we're not participating in what the scripture calls a Sabbath, what can happen is even the little things start to get heavy. Even getting out of bed in the morning can start to feel hard. When you used to have patience with your kid, you kind of want them to leave the room. When it used to be no big deal if someone messed up your order, now you're fuming when you leave. Not that I know what that's like. and the little things start to become heavy. And when the little starts to feel like a lot, that's called burnout.

2:44 Because burnout is when even small and little tasks start to feel weighty and unmanageable. But what God wants for you isn't to be burnt out. He wants to be burning in the power of your spirit. And when you're burning in the power of his spirit, it's not a little feeling like a lot. It's actually when a lot only feels like a little. It's what Paul says when he says, outwardly I'm wasting away, but inwardly I'm renewed day by day. He gets stoned basically to death. They think that he's dead. They drag him out of the city. If there was ever a time for a vacation, it's then. What's he do? Gets back up, goes back into the city so that he could keep preaching the gospel. What is that? In our day, it feels like my iPad dies and I start to cry. I don't know what to do. But all of a sudden you look at Paul and where are the breaks? Where is this rest?

3:36 What does he have that we don't? There's a rest beyond all rest that I think he's participating in. And it's the substance of the Sabbath. And what I believe the Sabbath is, is when you stop from your work and you rest in God's work. And what God's inviting us into is rest for weary souls. And to understand this kind of rest, I wanna look to see what scripture says. And so we're gonna be in Genesis chapter two and then kind of work our way through a whole string of texts. So if you've got your Bible, Genesis chapter two is where we spend the bulk of our time. But in Genesis two, verse two, God, after making the world,

4:18 he made all things. Day six, he creates humans and then he gets to the seventh day. And that's where we are in chapter two when he says that on the seventh day, God had completed his work that he'd done and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. And God blessed the seventh day and he declared it holy. For on it, he rested from all his work of creation. Before we get into it, I just wanna highlight one thing that scripture seems to have a higher view of work than we have and a higher view of rest than we have. What God talks about in Genesis is he promotes a six-day work week. Did you see that? He worked, yeah, don't say amen. He worked for six days, six days of work. Interestingly, many studies have been done and they found that beyond a certain amount of hours a week, no matter how much more you work, You're not that productive.

5:29 Do you know what that amount of time is? 50 hours, six day work week. He's saying six days, I want you to work. So don't misunderstand the message today. God is not anti-work ethic. In fact, he's gonna give you the rest from which you can work hard. But in the same way that he promotes a high view of work, he promotes an extremely high view of rest. He sets aside not a time, not a break, not a meal, but a day. He says, stop, rest. Remember, it's a whole day consecrated to the Lord. This is going to give you rest, is what he says. It's woven in the fabric of creation. This isn't a law that he gives. It's part of how he makes us and makes the world. It's a principle into how we're wired, that you need to have a day set aside for this purpose. And so this idea of Sabbath, we're going to talk about it in this way. We've talked about it this way as a church before.

6:25 It's the idea of stop, rest, and remember. Stop, rest, and remember. So first, and this idea of stop, where are we getting that from? When God says that he rested, it's the verb Shabbat, where ultimately the noun comes from of Sabbath. And so this idea of Shabbat, this idea of he rested, what does that word literally means? It literally means that God stopped. He ceased. He rested. He stopped. And here's one of the takeaways I want us to have today is that if God has time to stop, then so do we.

7:10 The world isn't revolving around you and your calendar. The world is actually revolving around God and his calendar. Praise God. You're not holding everything together. God is. You're not holding God up. He's holding you up. We're not saying that God's work is gonna be dependent on us. In fact, what we're saying is that our work depends on God. And if God is holding the whole world in his hands and God has time to stop, maybe we have time to stop too.

7:40 And in fact, you see this really clearly in Exodus chapter 20 when he does give this command because the Israelites had just come out of a season of 400 years of slavery. They were enslaved in the land of Egypt under the tyranny of Pharaoh. And in that, you'll notice that slaves don't get a six-day work week. They get a seven-day work week. There's no day off for slavery. In fact, in Exodus, I believe chapter three, just before this, what you'll see is that he imposed heavier work than ever on the Israelites. He says, I want you to have so much work to do that you can't hear the voice of God through Moses. So he gave them more work. The strategy of the enemy, Pharaoh, was to give them so much to do that they couldn't hear the voice of God. They were working, working, working, working. And in coming out of a seven day work week going nonstop, it's not natural to stop working.

8:39 And so when God gives them this law, this old covenant after they'd come out of slavery, of slavery, just about to enter the promised land. He tells them in the 10 commandments, the fourth commandment is this, verse eight, chapter 20 of Exodus. Remember the Sabbath day, keep it holy. You who are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord, your God. You must not do any work. You, your son, or your daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock or the resident alien who is within your city gates. Interestingly, it applies to more than just the Israelites. Four, the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything in them in six days. And then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and he declared it holy. A couple of things I want to point out is that when you look at the 10 commandments, this is the longest commandment by far. That if you look at all of them, this fourth commandment would take up about 30% of the 10 commandments. Not just that, but this is the only command that God gives a why behind.

9:53 Because he knew that their temptation was to go and work, work, work nonstop because of the context that they were coming out of. And if you're anything like me, you're living in a similar context. The temptation that we face today is that we've got to be productive. We've got to do the things. I've got to pick up the kids. I've got to respond to the text. I've got to send that email. I've got to make dinner. I've got to get the house clean, but I want you to feel like you can have fun and just relax. I want to be gentle with my kids, but not like too gentle. I want to be firm and loving. I want to make sure that everybody has what they need. I want to be fit, but also like working really hard. I want to rise early, but stay up late. And you look at yourself, you're like, who's doing this? What God is saying is you've got to stop. Stop. That's the principle here. Stop. On the seventh day, he stopped. How did they observe it? They did this weekly, but it moved even beyond that. They had weeks throughout the year where they would devote additional time to Sabbath through festival of weeks, Passover.

10:54 The same idea applied. Every seventh year, it was like a more intense Sabbath. And then the seventh year of the seventh year was called the year of Jubilee. when slaves were freed, land was given back to its original owner. If you owed debt, it was erased. The Sabbath principle was ruling the land. Maybe you're sitting there thinking, but that was underneath the law. And that's true, it was underneath the law. But it's also interesting that in Exodus 16, the story Mary just referenced, they were practicing the Sabbath before the law was given. Why? He tells you in the text, for on the seventh day, God rested. They weren't primarily obeying just because it was a law or because God told them to, but it was a principle wired into creation. I like the way the philosopher H.H. Farmer says it, that if you go against the grain of the universe, you tend to get splinters.

11:51 God's wired this need for rest in each of us. God made us with limits, and he invites us to embrace them. But he didn't just stop. He also blessed the day. And if you're following the creation story, earlier on, when he made the animals, he blessed the animals. And then he said, be fruitful and multiply. And then he made humans, or sorry, yeah, then he made humans and he blessed the humans. And he said, be fruitful and multiply. And then he made the Sabbath and he blessed the Sabbath. The implication is the Sabbath will make you fruitful and multiply. And what's interesting is there was a study done by Jerry Lee and published in the International Journey for Psychology of Religion. And they were looking at different blue zones in the world of why people are living a little bit longer. One of those was in Loma, California.

12:45 And in Loma, California, there's a group of about 9,000 Seventh-day Adventists. And the Seventh-day Adventists, there's a couple of things that are peculiar about the way that they practice their religion. However, one of the most distinct characteristics is that they're rigorous about practicing the Sabbath. And one of the main takeaways was they found that the people who practice the Sabbath added on average 10 years to their life. That's a little motivation to practice the Sabbath.

13:19 He blessed it, fruitful, multiply, literally multiplying in studies produced by psychological journals. But you don't just see that in science, you see that in scripture, this principle. You can follow it all throughout scripture. When God freed his people in the Exodus, just before his people were being pursued by an enemy and they were standing before a sea. They had nowhere to go. They're coming and complaining to Moses. And then Moses' response in Exodus 14, 14 is this, don't be afraid, stand firm and you will see the deliverance that the Lord will bring you today. Listen to this, the Lord will fight for you. You need only be still, stop, I'll split the sea. Then you journey with the Israelites. And when Judah is surrounded by the Assyrians, who's just taken out a lot of the other parts of Israel.

14:13 King Hezekiah is sitting there and he prays before the Lord, pouring out his heart. He's asking God to come and help them. And what is God's response to this man? You don't have to fight this battle. Position yourselves, stand still, stop and watch the salvation of the Lord. He is with you, Judah and Jerusalem. Don't be afraid or discouraged. Where'd their salvation come from? Stopping. What's Isaiah 30, 15 say? This is what the sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel says, in repentance and rest is your salvation. In quietness and trust is your strength. Psalm 37, seven says, be still before the Lord, wait patiently for him. Psalm 46, 10 says, be still and know that I am God.

15:06 I will be exalted among the nations, exalted in the earth. What's God doing? He's inviting us to watch him save us while we stop working, resting in his work. But he didn't just do that. He didn't just bless the day. He also made it holy. He set aside the seventh day and he made it holy. So side note, the Sabbath isn't about like doing whatever you want. It's not like a Netflix and chill day. This is an opportunity for you to engage in worship of the Lord. He wants you to fill your soul on who he is. How do you do that? Through resting. First you stop and then you rest. The second portion I want us to see is this idea of rest. In Genesis 2, going back to it in verse 2, it says that God completed his work. And then it says two times that he rested.

15:59 And I want us to have this image in our mind for a minute. God made humans on day six, okay? Humans are alive, feeling good. Adam and Eve, checking out the garden. They come up to God. So what's the plan for the rest of the day? Well, I was thinking we could rest a little bit.

16:21 What? Isn't there stuff to do? Because the Sabbath would actually start the night before in preparation. So the first things that humanity would have done in their relationship with God is rest in the finished work of God. God's economy is not work, then rest. It's rest, then work. Watch this. The first humans of Adam and Eve were not seeking a Sabbath because they were tired or exhausted. Sabbath is not a response to humans being tired. Sabbath is a invitation to sit and rest in the finished work of God. And then sitting in the rest of God, you can go out and work in the power of God. It's not work, so you need some rest. It's rest, so go work. But notice that at the beginning of creation, this blew me away.

17:16 Our relationship with God starts by resting in the finished work of God. Did you see that in verse two? God completed the work that he'd done. He was so satisfied with his work that he stopped and he rested. And then he says, this is how our relationship starts. You sit and rest in the completed work that I've accomplished for you. But why would God rest? What need could God possibly have to rest? I like the way that Tim Keller talks about it and in his chapter on it called Sabbath and Jesus the King. And it's this idea that it's possible to be so satisfied with something. It's possible to see something is so good that it leads you to stop. Not because you're tired.

18:10 God's not tired in need of a break. He's so satisfied. It's very good. There's nothing else to do. Let's stop and enjoy. It's like, maybe you've mown the lawn before. You're like, kids, come here. you gotta look at this. Isn't it amazing? See those lines? And I remember being in seminary and finishing a paper that I was so proud of. And I was like, Mary, you've gotta read this. And she's like, I will, Jonathan, but like, I don't know, like the Augustinian, Pelagian controversy just doesn't really appeal to me. I'm like, no, babe, you don't understand. You, you are going to love this. It's like this idea that you're so satisfied with the work that it leads you to stop and invite others into it. God was so satisfied with creation, this satisfaction with the work that he'd accomplished that he invites you and he invites me into it.

19:08 We rest from our work to rest with God in his work. That's the invitation of Sabbaths, stopping what you're doing to join God and resting in what he's accomplished. Keller describes it by pointing to the movie Chariots of Fire, if you've seen it. Gave us an iconic song. Check it out later. And in this movie, it's really about two runners, Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams. And in this movie, there are two runners. One would not race on the Sabbath day because he was a believer. And then part of his principle in the early 1900s was he was not going to race on Sundays and observing of this Sabbath. And his idea of rest. And yet this other runner, Harold, would run and he identified the meaning of his existence within it.

20:04 In the movie he says, I've got 10 seconds to justify my existence on earth. And Keller describes it this way. Harold Abraham was weary even when he rested. And Eric Little was rested even when he was exerting himself. Why? Because there is a work underneath our work that we really need rest from. It's the work of self-justification. Most of us work in work, writing to prove ourselves to convince God, others, and ourselves that we're good people. That work is never over unless we find rest in the gospel. The rest that God's offering to us isn't a physical rest because we're exerted. The rest that God's offering to us is a soul rest because he doesn't want us to have to fight to prove our worth to God, but to rest in the fact that he's already accomplished that for us.

21:01 And then lastly, just as we start to close, this idea of stopping, resting, and remembering. It's really interesting that if you look at the book of Deuteronomy, which is just the second giving of the law, this added sentence is tacked on to the back of the command. So in Deuteronomy 5, he gives the same command to observe the Sabbath. But this time at the end, he gives a different reason why. Listen to this. In Deuteronomy 5, 15, he says, remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out of there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. So the work that he's pointing them to remember and find rest in is the reality that when you were slave, God redeemed you from it and gave you rest in a new land. He's pointing to the Exodus.

21:57 And all throughout the prophets and in the Old Testament, the Exodus, the Exodus, the Exodus, this act of God redeeming his people from slavery is the pinnacle of the book. So I want us to think about what this exodus would have been like. At the beginning of the exodus, God gave the plagues to soften the heart of Pharaoh. And the pinnacle of it was the death of the firstborn son. And that's where we get this idea of Passover. Because when the angel of death was coming to take out the firstborn children in the land, God told his people, you need to take the blood of the lamb and put it on your doorpost. And from there, the angel of death will pass over your house because you were underneath the blood of the lamb. And it was from the blood of the lamb that it gave God's people freedom. And they left and were faced with a sea in front of them, a wall to their left and an army behind them.

22:53 No way to escape. But then what happened is God sent a mediator and Moses and Moses stood and by the power of God split the sea and they passed through the waters of death and entered into life on the other side. And on the other side, what they experienced was they were given a new law, the 10 commandments, and they journeyed through the wilderness in pursuit of a promised land. He says, what that was, was redemption. You need to remember the fact that you were once dead, but now you're alive. You were once enslaved and now you're free. And that's how you rest in remembrance of the fact that I am your God who delivers you. And then you see Jesus get on the scene in the New Testament and there's all this controversy about the Sabbath. In fact, the way that Jesus introduces himself is by quoting the pinnacle Sabbath verse. In Luke chapter four, he stands up in a synagogue and he reads a verse and everybody goes quiet.

23:49 The verse that he read was Isaiah 61.1. It says, the spirit of the Lord God is on me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners. And this verse is primarily talking about the Sabbath of all Sabbaths. It's this year of Jubilee. It's the time when the poor were taken care of, those enslaved were freed and Jesus gets up to introduce his ministry. And as he stands up and reads this verse, he then looks out at the people and he says, today, that verse is fulfilled. What was he saying? I am the Sabbath of all Sabbaths.

24:44 I am the one who come to give you rest. The year of Jubilee was talking about me. The Sabbath system was talking about me and they understood him perfectly. So what did they try to do? They tried to kill him. They picked him up and tried to throw him off a cliff. Why? Because they knew that by saying that, he was saying he was God. He's the one that the Sabbath law ultimately pointed to, but he was able to evade it and he continues in his work. And then very early, Mark chapter two, you start seeing more controversy about this idea of the Sabbath. And so in chapter two of Mark, his disciples are picking up grain, just trying to get a little snack on their day. And as they're eating, the Pharisees come at them and they're like, hey, what are you doing? It's the Sabbath. You're not supposed to be doing any of that on Sabbath.

25:31 And Jesus is like, no, no, you're misunderstanding the Sabbath because the heart of the Sabbath was restoration and redemption for God's people. And what this is, is a necessary act for God's people to eat food. That's why my kids don't always bring me rest, but I can't say, sorry, it's the Sabbath. You stay outside. It's why there's a reason where we can have necessary jobs seven days a week because at its heart, it's restoration and redemption. It's leading you into the Lord's work. You don't understand. Man wasn't made for the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for man is what he tells him in Mark 2, 27. And then the very next chapter, chapter three, he takes this man who's got like a withered hand. He brings them up in front of people.

26:24 He says, you think I should heal him or just let him stay this way? Well, I mean, it's technically work. It's not about not working. It's about worshiping him. It's about work that leads to rest. And this is the rest. This is the work that leads to rest and restoration. So he tells the man with the withered hand, be healed. His hand's healed. They're like, we've got to kill this guy.

26:54 Continues on. There's a woman with a disabled spirit. She was bent over for 18 years, couldn't walk. Luke 13, what'd he do? He healed her on the Sabbath. There's a man who has a swollen body in Luke 14. What'd he do? He healed him on the Sabbath. John chapter nine, there's a man who was born blind. What'd he do? He healed him on the Sabbath. And then he went and he said, you gotta go tell him that I healed you on the Sabbath.

27:27 Don't you love Jesus? He comes back. Is it like, did he know what he was doing? How did he heal you on the Sabbath? What was that like? Do you think he was intentional about it? He's like, I don't know. I was blind, but now I see. Now I'm gonna worship him. What is that? That's the goal of Sabbath. Worshiping God. an action that leads to rest in the finished work of God, who is Jesus. He's the culmination of the Sabbath. That's why you see when you get to the pinnacle of his life, he's celebrating what? The Passover meal with his people. Marking what? The Exodus. They're remembering redemption. And here he is eating this Exodus Passover meal, the bread and the wine, and he gives them a new covenant. And in that he goes, that same night and he suffers and he gives his life on a cross.

28:21 And do you remember what the next day was? The Sabbath. And then following, he rose from the dead into new life. What are these authors of scripture doing by emphasizing the Sabbath again and again and again? They're saying that redemption that we're supposed to remember is found in Jesus. He's not pointing back to the Exodus. he's what the exodus was pointing to. He's the new exodus. He's the new redemption. In the same way that the Israelites were enslaved to Pharaoh so humanity is enslaved to sin. In the same way that God sent Moses to save all of Israel God sent Jesus to save all his people. In the same way that the Passover lamb dies Jesus the lamb of God died. In the same way that the blood of the lamb freed the people from the angel of death the blood of the lamb frees God's people from eternal death. In the same way that Israel passed through the Red Sea. So all those in Christ will pass through death into life. In the same way that Israel is delivered from Pharaoh, God's people are delivered from sin and Satan. In the same way that Israel left Egypt and went into the wilderness, God's people left our former slavery and go into the wilderness called sanctification. In the same way that the people of God in Israel pursued a promised land. The people of God and Christ pursue a heavenly promised land.

29:41 Jesus is the Sabbath. Jesus is the new exodus. Jesus is the fulfillment. Jesus is both the Lord of the Sabbath, the maker of the Sabbath, and the substance of the Sabbath. So Jesus isn't giving us a principle today that we're meant to practice as much as he has, pointing us to a person, Jesus, who is the rest for your soul and my soul. And it's resting in the finished, completed work of God that gives us rest in new life. That's why this blew me away. Revelation 21, five through six says this. You get to this pinnacle moment in the story of God, what everything points to, eternal Sabbath. And this is what it says. The one seated on the throne, who the book makes clear is Jesus. He said this, look, I'm making everything new. He also said, write, because these words are faithful and true.

30:39 And then he said to me, it is done. I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give to the thirsty from the spring of the water of life. So don't miss this. In Genesis chapter two, God finished the work of creation. He completed his work. He said, it's finished. Now come and join a relationship with me. And that next day was the Sabbath and the Sabbath led to new life. In John chapter 19, Jesus finished fulfilling all righteousness, giving his life on a cross. And his last words on that cross were, it is finished. The work is good. It's done. The next day was Sabbath.

31:33 The following day, new creation, new life. You get to Revelation 21. Jesus finishes the eternal redemption. He looks to John and he says, it's done. It's finished. The following day, new creation, eternal Sabbath. Jesus is the Sabbath. And this is why he can stand in Matthew 11, verse 28 and say, come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Jesus is the Sabbath. and we rest in him by joining him and resting in the finished work of God on our behalf. Thank you, Jesus, for the Sabbath. So the question is, what does it mean for us to participate in the Sabbath today? And there's all kinds of different views on this.

32:28 I like the way that Hebrews 4 says it. For we who have believed, present tense, we enter that rest. So he equates, listen, he equates Sabbath rest with believing in Jesus. Why does he do that? He explains it in verse 10, verse nine. Therefore, a Sabbath rest remains for God's people for the person who has entered his rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from his. Let us then make every effort to enter that rest. What's he saying? He's saying, if you've trusted in the finished work of Christ, that soul rest that you need, that soul striving that's always underneath the surface, it's put to death because you trust in the one who made you right. You're present tense experiencing the Sabbath rest of God.

33:21 And yet there is a day coming where we will get to enter eternal Sabbath rest forever. Everything sad coming untrue, everything wrong being made right. So we do rest, but we look forward to rest. So while this rest is on the table, don't be found to fall short of it. Colossians 2 says something somewhat similar. Verse 16, therefore, don't let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or new moon or even a Sabbath day. Why? Because these are a shadow of what was to come, but the substance is Christ. He says the whole system was a shadow and Christ is the substance.

34:03 The system was supposed to point to the rest, but Jesus is the one who gives it. And so what's that mean for us? Well, you see this really interesting shift in the New Testament. You don't see a command anywhere in the New Testament for believers to observe the Sabbath day. But what you do see is they stop meeting on the Sabbath day and they start meeting on the first day of the week, which was the day that Jesus rose from the dead. Why? It's a picture that the Sabbath rest, the day that we used to meet on has now been fulfilled in the person and work of Christ. So we meet and gather together on the day that is Sabbath rest, our resurrection. So in three different places in the New Testament, it says that they gathered on the first day of the week, on the Lord's day, on the first day of the week. Why? There's a shift from Saturday to Sunday because it's the day that the substance has come. We now gather around the resurrection of who Jesus is, our true Sabbath.

34:56 And so what does it mean for us to gather on this first day of the week? Here's what I think it means. I think the principle of creation still stands, that it's good to rest. God's hardwired it into us, but the one that the Sabbath rest points to is here. And he gives us the rest that we've all been desiring. And so I do think, because that's true, it's good for us to prioritize times and seasons of rest around the person and work of Jesus. I think we do that on a weekly basis on the Lord's day. And I think we do that on other basis, just like in the Old Testament law, it was in addition to the week, They had other times and rhythms throughout the year where they could do this. And that's exactly what we're stepping into as a church. It's just a different time where we get to stop for a minute, rest and remember the Lord and say, great, we've got two weeks. This doesn't mean that we hope you're by yourself for two weeks.

35:48 This means we hope that you're with God's people taking time to stop, rest and remember in a different capacity than we normally get to. So what could that look like? I think the principle for us is that we weekly rest from our work in order to prioritize working from a place of rest so some practicals for us I think it means that you stop if it's productive, don't do it which is hard but one day a week, I just encourage you if it's productive, don't do it I know for us, one of the practical things was we're not buying things that day of the week because anytime we buy something by nature, it's telling me I'm doing or accomplishing something productive. I think I'd encourage you to turn your phone off. It's hard to remove distractions from the Lord when you're constantly getting buzzes, taking you somewhere else.

36:46 I'd encourage you to worship. The day is designed to bring you intimacy with the Almighty. I'd encourage you to eat well. there are other ways to worship outside of singing. Enjoy some good food. I'd encourage you to consider this question, what helps you rest and what moves you to worship God? What helps you stop? What helps you rest? And what helps you remember? Do those things and do them with the people of God. And I think in so doing, you'll find that you're not in that place of being burnt out where the little feels like a lot, but God will fuel and fill your soul and move you to participate in the world in such a way.