Shaunti Fledhahn

Feb 5

Written by: Shaunti Feldhahn
2/5/2007 8:00 AM

Today, Monday, I did absolutely no work at all. I have been feeling so convicted that I wasn’t really trusting the Lord by not being purposeful about taking a Sabbath. For several years I had been trying so hard to do all these events, write these books, and write the articles that I needed to write for the column that I had really been skimping on the idea of a Sabbath. I felt like the Lord was really challenging me just as He says in his Word, that we are supposed to thrive as a discipline and we are supposed to trust Him; that we’ll have enough money for all of the things we need to do but we need to give that first 10% of our finances to Him.

I had felt the Lord encouraging me that I had learned how to thrive and how to trust Him financially years ago, but I had never really learned to trust Him with my time. So, I felt very convinced that I was supposed be very careful about starting to take a Sabbath every week regardless of if I had way too much to get done. He would demonstrate to me that just as there would be enough money if I thrived, that I would be able to get things done if I gave Him my Sabbath. So today, I got up, sent the kids to school, had a massage which has become very necessary with all the wear and tear on my body from traveling; had lunch with some girlfriends and after that sat and read for a little while and it was absolutely wonderful to not have to work. So, this is my commitment that I have made to the Lord- that I will take a Sabbath every week and trust Him that I will still be able to get everything done.

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