Mark 2:27 (MEV)
Then He [Jesus] said to them,
“The Sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the Sabbath.”
“The sabbath was made for man – For his rest from toil, his rest from the cares and anxieties of the world, to give him an opportunity to call off his attention from earthly concerns and to direct it to the affairs of eternity.”
Albert Barnes, (1798-1870)
Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
It’s simple. Rest! It’s good for you.
Do you schedule yourself to the edges of your time? Or do you leave space for interruptions?
Jesus welcomed interruptions. Even when he was already busy. Take Luke 8, for example.
Luke 8:41-44 (TLB)
And now a man named Jairus . . . begged him to come home with him, for his only child was dying . . . Jesus went with him . . . As they went a woman who wanted to be healed came up behind and touched him.
Two interruptions, two lives changed. Make room for interruptions.
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Financial advice from God’s Word:
Leviticus 23:22 (NIRV)
Suppose you are gathering your crops. Then do not harvest all the way to the edges of your field. And do not pick up the grain you missed. Leave some for the poor people and the outsiders who live among you. I am the Lord your God.
Here and now, most of us don’t have an actual field. Substitute the word income for field. Don’t live to the very edges of your income. Leave room in your bank account to share.
We all know a few folks who want nothing to do with Jesus. They have no room in their hearts for anything Christian. Despite their best efforts, they may get an occasional whiff of God.
2 Corinthians 2:15 (TLB)
As far as God is concerned there is a sweet, wholesome fragrance in our lives. It is the fragrance of Christ within us, an aroma to both the saved and the unsaved all around us.
Lord God, let me be a sweet fragrance in this stinky world.
John 14:1-3 (NLT)
Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home . . . When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.
Woo-hoo! There’s room in heaven for you and me.
We’re coming off the Christmas season, where there was “no room” for Jesus (Luke 2:7).
The last book of the Bible gives us a different view:
Revelation 3:20 (CEV)
Listen! I am standing and knocking at your door. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and we will eat together.
If I make room in my life for Jesus, he makes himself at home. We sit together, share a cup of coffee (or an extravagant meal), and talk. He speaks, I listen. I speak, he listens.
I make room to chat with God. 
Isaiah 35:10 (ESV)
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads.
Sometimes we get so comfortable is this world, we forget about the joy to come.
My friends, this should not be so. I, for one, look forward to a crown of everlasting joy.
Matthew 1:23 & Isaiah 7:14
Call him Immanuel,
which means “God is with us.”
“God is with us,” bringing joy:
Joy to the world, joy in the world! 
