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As we talk about the Sabbath, I think it is important to be aware that we are not talking about a specific day (Jews this was Friday night to Saturday night) (Christians traditions will mark Sunday).
We are talking about our lives and God’s design for us to rest in him.
Tim Elmore in his book Generation Z Unfiltered, published in 2019, writes
The caring adults I talk with everywhere I travel agree that the number one challenge teens face today is anxiety.
We are hearing the terms panic attacks, depression, stressed out, obsessions, and anxiety attacks a lot more common than when I grew up.
Elmore says
The people who maintain a happy life, those who are emotionally healthy, are people who create margin in their calendars.
They schedule portions of their days to create space.
They remove noise and clutter during those portions of time.
They experience solitude.
Quiet.
Simplicity.
They take control of their days instead of remaining at the mercy of all the busyness going on.
They are intentional to UNPLUG.
Between 2008 and 2018, the levels of anxiety in adolescents skyrocketed, measurably.
What happened that so many more teens, in such a short time, would feel depressed, attempt suicide and commit suicide?
wrote San Diego State University professor Jean Twenge, who authored a study on this in the Washington Post column.
“After scouring several large surveys for clues, I found that all of the possibilities traced back to a major change in teens lives: the sudden ascendance of the smartphone.”
“Teens who spend 5 or more hours online a day were 71 percent more likely than those who spent 1 hour a day to have at least one suicide risk factor,” Twenge’s research found.
My family and I got to go to the beach for vacation this Summer.
I was amazed at the number of people that had to have their phone on the beach.
It was not just the fact that they had their phone but they were spending endless minutes and hours staring at a screen with the ocean in front of them.
Not just that but they also have to bring their portable speaker because the sound of the ocean is not enough.
They must play their own sound and noise.
I took a pic and shared it with Amy of one lady.
If you are on the beach and sun is bright it is not easy to see your screen.
One lady had her beach chair.
She had turned around backwards and was kneeling with one leg in the chair and totally hunched over.
She was using her body to shield the sun and create a shade so she could see her phone.
She looked like this.
(How was your vacation?
It was so good but I came home and my back hurt so bad and I am not sure why) (It was very relaxing keeping up on social media and seeing what everyone else is doing)
One study said that students attention spans are eight seconds.
This is down from 12 seconds from students being measured in 2000.
This means that students are distracted after just 8 seconds unless their brains find what they are focusing on to be intriguing.
Scrolling tic toc videos or producing videos you have 8 seconds to engage or they will scroll on.
It is no wonder that more and more kids are being diagnosed with ADHD.
All of this causes students and adults to invite more and more noise and clutter into our lives.
We were floating early on in the summer and we floated past a husband and wife floating and the husband was blaring his music and the wife was blaring her music.
They couldn’t agree on music so they both brought their own and blasted it.
The biggest need we have is to just UNPLUG.
We need times of Quiet and Still.
We need to be bored.
Our brains actually need boredom to be healthy.
Elmore writes
The margin we experience when our brains are bored provides us the capacity to become better people.
Think about it for a minute.
Kids are so busy that they have little time in their schedule to get bored.
Their life is filled with pings, noise, notifications, appointments and activities.
They have little time to care about others.
They’re simply reacting to everything in order to survive.
They then shift into survival mode and the goal simply comes with how to cope with everything coming their way.
Sabbath (שַׁבָּת, shabbath):
It means that you STOP or to cease from
שֶׁבַע sheba
Seven:
Seven was symbolic in ancient eastern and Israelite culture and literature.
It communicated a sense of “fullness” or “completeness” (Seven is spelled with the same consonants as the word “complete/full”)
Genesis 1:1 Contains 7 Hebrew words
1 1 בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃
The center word in Hebrew of Genesis 1:1 is et.
You have 3 words on both sides of the word Et.
Et contains the letters in it that are the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet aleph and the last letter Tav.
Here you find both the beginning and the end in Genesis 1:1.
In Genesis chapter 2 it brings us to a statement of completion.
What follows is a literary structure of 3 lines of 7 words about the 7th day in Hebrew.
The word seven means fullness or completeness.
This concludes God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy and the reason why he did this was for on it He rested from His work of creation.
All throughout scripture you will see the symbolism of the number 7.
Symbolism is different than numerology
Numerology is the study of an occult, divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events.
Numerology it is all about the numbers and give meaning to the numbers.
Numerology you start to worship the numbers
Symbolism the numbers point us to the meaning.
God uses the number 7 to point us to him.
Here in Genesis 1 we have this beautiful literary structure that points us over and over back to the goodness of God.
On the 7th day God blessed it.
In Genesis 1, we see two other places where God blesses.
Again
God Blesses and we see abundance and rule.
God blesses the 7th day.
May it be abundant.
May it be full.
May it be exponentially Complete.
A Journey to Completeness
The state of the heavens and the earth
God gives order created day and night
God creates sky Day 2
God creates land and vegetation Day 3
Day 4 God creates the Sun and the moon
Festivals: Moadim
Moadim links us to the festivals in Leviticus 23.
There are 7 here.
This Culminating 7th day becomes the model for the 7th year of release and then what we studied earlier in the 7x7 year of Jubilee.
See that in the middle of creation on day 4 we see this pointing to the festivals and again pointing us to Shabbat that is STOP or CEASE, UNPLUG.
Who is creating order out of disorder?
God is doing the creating.
Stop and recognize that this journey from disorder into fullness or completeness is what God is doing.
Day 5 Creatures that swim and fly
Day 6 Every living thing including mankind
Day 7 God Shabbats He stops
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