7-day plan: Work and Rest
Work as gift and as burden, diligence, rest, and who holds us up.
One passage a day, with a question to think it over. Your progress stays on this device, no account needed.
Day 1 · Work is good
God put the man in the garden to work it and keep it, before any fall
And YHWH Elohim took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.
Genesis 2:15 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
What friendship or relationship can you care for this week so you do not walk alone?
Day 2 · As for the Lord
Whatever you do, work at it from the heart, as for the Lord
Whatever you do, work at it from the soul, as for the Lord and not for people, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord, the Messiah, whom you serve as slaves.
Colossians 3:23–24 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
Which word or phrase stays with you, and why?
Day 3 · Laziness and diligence
Look at the ant, who with no boss prepares her bread; for the lazy, poverty arrives like a drifter
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise; which, having no chief, supervisor, or ruler, prepares in the summer her bread; she gathers at the harvest her food. How long, sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down, and your poverty will come like a prowler, and your need like a man with a shield.
Proverbs 6:6–11 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
What situation in your life does this passage speak to?
Day 4 · The day of rest
God ceased on the seventh day and blessed it, from the creation
And on the seventh day Elohim finished his work that he had done, and on the seventh day he ceased from all his work that he had done. And Elohim blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he ceased from all his work that Elohim had created to make.
Genesis 2:2–3 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
What friendship or relationship can you care for this week so you do not walk alone?
Day 5 · Come to me, all who are weary
Jesus invites the weary and burdened to find rest with him
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28–30 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
Jesus invites the weary and burdened to come to him (v. 28). What burden could you bring to him today?
Day 6 · Work is good
God blesses humankind and tasks them to fill the earth, subdue it and rule over the animals
And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every animal that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
How can you treat the people around you today, remembering that every one of them was created in the image of Elohim?
Day 7 · As for the Lord
Your labor in the Lord is not in vain
So then, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:58 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
Looking back over the week, what changed in how you see this topic?