Eulogian--How You Will Bless Rest
Posted: Sunday, December 09, 2007
by Jason Witt
http://www.jasonwitt.org
When you receive the Seal you become a eulogian, just like God became when He gave man His first blessing--the blessing of the Sabbath. So you will bless your own rest as well as your own work.
During the first five days when God created the earth He created most of what we know of today. He created the whole universe, the sun, moon, and stars. He gave the earth its form and created the life upon it.
Ultimately you can spread your message as far and wide as the earth itself. You have this fruit-bearing potential when you are are sealed, to go from growing one seed to growing the garden of the whole earth.
And yet God created other life upon earth, the life of the fish, birds, and animals. When He creates these creatures in your little earth He creates them by His Presence within you, with your help.
So you bear not only the fruit of the garden but also the creatures of the earth as your own. You are the host to their life (along with God), and they complete the balance of garden within you.
On the sixth day God completed the work He did, perfecting all the little details. And on the seventh day He rested. This is what is known as the Sabbath day, the traditional day of rest, usually observed on Sunday.
But when God rested He did not stop His life-giving activity. He still sustained life on the earth with His Providence and gave spiritual Life to the man He had created. And neither will you completely rest on your day of rest.
You will not stop bearing fruit any more than the earth stops bearing fruit on the day that God rested. God did not stop granting life to the earth. And He kept giving the spiritual Life to the man.
The earth did not rest along with God. And so you will bear fruit always, even when at rest. This is the glory of your day of rest--you will yet continue to bear fruit. And thus you will be the eulogian of the day of rest.
When God rested on the seventh day, He blessed the day of rest and sanctified it. This is considered the first formal blessing God issued. Of course He blessed everyone just by creating the universe.
But God particularly blessed the day of rest, and for good reason. One of God's gifts to man has always been rest from the never-ceasing labors which plague man, especially after Adam and Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit and were cursed.
So you have come to cherish the rest that God generously gives to you. And He became the Eulogian on His own first day of Rest from creating the world when He blessed His day of Rest.
With God's blessing you will be at rest even when you are busy and hard at work. And with the blessing you will be busy giving your garden life even when you are at rest.
When you are sealed you will become the eulogian of the day of rest, blessing it and sanctifying it. One of your blessings will be that you will continue to give life to the garden when you rest, having received the Seal.
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