God has given us six days to work. The work we’ve been given to do is greater than the job at which we work. We must work at all our relationships, at developing and using our gifts in ministry, at keeping our home and possessions in good condition, in raising children and strengthening our marriage, in our civic and church responsibilities, and so forth.

God has given us six days to work. If we seek Him prayer, so that we plan well, waiting on Him to show us the work we must do each day (Ps. 90.12, 16, 17), we should be able to complete the work He has given us to do each week between Monday and Saturday, leaving Sunday to rest in the Lord and be sanctified in Him.

We must be careful on the Lord’s Day not to bring our weekly work into this holy day. Only works of necessity and mercy may be performed on the Lord’s Day. Otherwise, let us remember and guard this day so that we are renewed in God’s sovereignty and redeeming grace, week by week.

T. M. Moore

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