Ordinary Holy | Week 2 | Why God Commands Rest

Welcome to week two in our summer series, talking about God in our everyday, this ordinary holy idea.

The whole summer, this is an invitation for us to know God and find God in everyday life, not just in gatherings like this or environments like this.

Last week, we had quite a conversation about celebration and joy and beauty.

Now this week, we want to, as Pastor Bill said, start looking towards sleep and rest.

And some of you are like, yes, Lord, I'm ready.

Now we all know that lack of rest is everywhere in this cultural moment.

We're living in a time where people, it doesn't matter if you're a child, a teen, young adult, or adult, we have lost the gift of rest.

When we invented the modern light as humans, we conquered night.

We can be awake for all hours.

The natural rhythm of awake and sleep was broken.

We now live in environments, especially cities, that never sleep.

But it was not just the light that has changed our world.

It is this little device here.

are phones that have radically shifted the environment when it comes to sleep and rest from the moment we wake up we instinctively check our phones if you are involved in a daily commute we have radios podcasts music humming in the background at the end of the day we tend to sit and binge things like netflix or disney plus or prime we spend more time now in this moment consuming media than eating sleeping, or any other activity.

Years ago, when I was talking on the need for this discipline, I had just heard an interview with Netflix's CEO, Reed Hastings, and he boldly said that his company's biggest competitor was not other streaming services like Prime or Disney Plus.

Their greatest competitor, everyone ready, was sleep.

Now let's talk about sleep.