Labor Day - 2025

Labor Day - 2025

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”

-Colossians 3:23

Balance is important in life…

Work & Rest

Too little = Lazy

Too much = Workaholic

“The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to WORK it and take care of it.” 

-Genesis 2:15

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

-Ephesians 2:10

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

- Matthew 11:28

[Sermon Illustration: Run, Rest, Repeat]

What drains your energy?

“You will break the bow if you keep it always bent.”

“Balance, Balance, Balance”

Too Much Rest

Too Little Rest

What BREAK do you need?

What will bring you REST?

Beach

Camping

Reading

Instruments

Walking

Hiking

Paddle Boarding/Kayaking

Horse Back Riding

Gardening

Farming

Wood Working

Sightseeing

Travel

Photography

Watching Movies, TV, etc.

Quilting

Sewing

Pets

Tennis/Pickleball

Golf

Exercise

Faithlife and Jesus

Beware of the energy-drain of perceived unfairness.

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out EARLY in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. 3 “About NINE in the morning…” 5 … about NOON and about THREE in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About FIVE ……8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going first.” 9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to GRUMBLE against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the BURDEN of the work and the heat of the day.’ 13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ 16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.” 17 Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, 18 “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death 19 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and CRUCIFIED. On the third day he will be RAISED to life!”

 -Matthew 20:1-19

“Do everything without complaining or arguing… shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life…”  

- Philippians 2:13-16

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

 - Matthew 11:28

 “If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow…”

-Psalm 7:12

 “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, ’Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’”

-Romans 12:19