Purposeful and Meaningful: When All You Need is Rest

I woke up at 6am this morning and I slowly approached the door. You won’t believe what happened next. I saw myself lying on the floor with my husband squatting next to me and calling out my name. Initially I was lost in thoughts and trying to make sense of what had occurred.

Are you all right? Did you bump somewhere? Are you hurt? What happened? On and on the questions rolled in.

“I don’t know” was my response.

As he helped me up, I felt pain from the left side of my head. He noticed it was a swelling. I probably hit my head on the wardrobe. He massaged it in so it would go down quickly.

Guess what?

I passed out! Literally Passed Out!

I had a very tight schedule the week before. Barely had enough sleep and now there I was lying on the floor some days later.

Now I am on an academic break, I figured out I could do some writing within a specified time frame. But today, I realise I need to slow down on my work schedules.

Don’t you think you need to take a break and rest?

I mean just do nothing; lie on the bed, watch the birds, read a novel, walk in the garden whatever eases that stress limit.

Four Reasons why your Body needs to Rest

1. Your body signals you when you need to rest. When you struggle to have enough time to sleep, or you feel dizzy a lot these days or you are losing concentration, your body can only accommodate this much.

God rested so you need to. God had worked for six days non-stop and figured he needed to rest. We go for much longer and don’t get our bodies to pause.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Genesis 2:2

2. You will do better after a break. You may feel so much pressure to do a lot work but remember when your mind is rested, your performance is better. Try taking at least ten minutes break within two hours of work-stretch.

3. Think of it this way, you are running low on gas and you keep working your car. You have to pull over at the garage and refill your tank. Else you will grind your car to a halt.

Spiritually, it is needful to take time off and spend quality time alone with God. You feel refreshed and your deleted energy would be restored.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

4. Be alive for those who love and care about you. We always think if we don’t do this work no one else will.

Truthfully, if you drop dead today, life continues.

As hard as it is, remember, you need to keep well and be alive for your family and friends and work never seems to get finished or ends.

Jesus encouraged his disciples to find a secluded place and rest.

And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

How about you, have you figured out a way to get rested?
Do you always feel you need to keep doing all the work and don’t get enough rest?

Prayer: May we enter into His rest from all our labour in Jesus Name.