See, the Lord has given you the sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day."It's troubling how often I hear Christians talking about their weeks being so busy that they have to do something on Sunday. Back in college, I was even one of those people. However, I grew up with the mentality that (non-church) work isn't to be done Sundays, if it can be helped. Part of what always irritates me about the people saying that, is that they're often the ones who spend Saturday and/or Friday night "carousing." They choose to relax and have fun first, then suddenly realize that there is still stuff to do, and spend Sunday madly rushing around to get things finished.
Now, I can understand the occasional pre-planned activity, but my mentality just doesn't work so well with the idea of waiting to the last minute on Sunday to finish things. I think this verse gives the proper mindset: plan out your time, so that you don't need to work on the sabbath. In Moses' time, it was a forced decision; they didn't work on Sunday, because there was nothing to work on (the manna didn't deliver). If you didn't plan, you went hungry. Today, we actually have to think about it, and plan it out, then we can enjoy our time, and truly find the rest God offers us.
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