2019 Prayer and Fasting, Day 12

I've been really feasting lately on some of my musical projects. Even though my fasting is still holding up, other parts of my feasting, like my prayer, devotional, and Scriptural study, have slowed a bit. As good as this season has been (both the praying/fasting and recuperating from a lower back injury), I'm kinda burned out. So even though I blogged yesterday, I didn't journal or study scripture. Maybe there is something to be said for taking a Sabbath from all this holy work. I think about God and how He created the universe in six days and then rested the seventh, only resuming work again on the eighth day. I then think about the fourth commandment that He gave us (well, to the Israelites first, and eventually to the rest of us):

“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 male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 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.

Exodus 20:8-11, New International Version

Even though ironically I've been doing every day what God commands us to do on the Sabbath day, maybe there's something to be said for taking a Sabbath from prayer and fasting. But don't ask me yet what that looks like. I don't know, and to rush to pick something to do (usually the first thing that comes to me via impulse) sounds to me a rather dangerous idea.