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[123lineengineers]

USB C Six in One Expansion Dock Notebook Multifunctional Converter

Name: Type-C HUB Interface: Six in One Specifications: pd100w+hdmi4k30hz+USB3.0+USB2.0+SD/TF

[123lineengineers]

USB C Six in One Expansion Dock Notebook Multifunctional Converter

Name: Type-C HUB Interface: Six in One Specifications: pd100w+hdmi4k30hz+USB3.0+USB2.0+SD/TF

[prinsez05]

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[shanewillardministries]

The Six-In-One Rhythm

In Exodus 20:8-11 God says, “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” The basis of the day of rest goes all the way back to a premise that God set in creation itself. There was a six-in-one principle in creation. There was an experiment in a zoo where they took a group of animals and displayed them for seven days in a row, for several weeks in a row and then they took another group of animals and they displayed them for six days and on the seventh day they gave them rest. They found that the animals they gave rest to became healthier than the animals that were on display for seven days in a row.

There was a six-in-one rhythm in creation. It’s almost like we have a reset button. We need to have a moment to shake the cobwebs loose and remind ourselves that one of the primary definitions of the Sabbath to a Hebrew person is that it was a day that is unlike the other six. Do you have one day in seven that doesn’t look like the other six? Do you have one day that is absolutely distinguishingly different?

The principle comes from Exodus 5:15-19, “Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, ‘Why are you dealing thus with your servants? There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make Brick!’ And indeed your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.’ But he said, ‘You are idle! Idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’ Therefore go now and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks.’ And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble after it was said, ‘You shall not reduce any bricks from your daily quota.’”

This is not just a story about the Israelites and Egyptians. This is also a story about you and me. This is a story about the other people in our lives who define our lives by what we do. It’s a tendency we have to create a value system around our lives that’s all about one thing; bricks. If we really examine our lives at this point and are honest with ourselves about one thing, it would be that when we make our lives about bricks, it’s never enough. You can make bricks - you can make bricks perfectly, yet your slave drivers are still beating you. You can make bricks without straw, they’re still beating you. You can appeal, they’re still beating you. This is the nature of the slave driver - Make bricks. All right. Make bricks without this. Okay. Make bricks without straw. Okay. Go get your own straw and make them. Alright. No matter what you do, no matter who you are, when your life is defined by the machine of accomplishment, by the machine of works, by the machine of what you do, it’s never enough. At the end of the day you feel beaten. It’s never enough.

Take the time to reflect on what your ‘bricks’ are. Where do you allow them to define you?