These people, forced to be less than they were created to be, are like me. I know I never measure up to what God designed for me in the beginning. My highest thought does not begin to measure on God s scale of thoughts. I often feel trapped by the realities of my life and its limitations. These two portraits guide us into two major aspects of Sabbath activities, prayer and play.
Prayer is the meaning of our considerations or contemplations.
Prayer is acknowledging a great God in contrast to a created human being. Deuteronomy 5 reminds us that in Egypt, the Israelites were only valuable in so far as they could work. Social leisure was unheard of and unacceptable. Value was placed upon performance, and that was coerced. Social leisure play was the result of their deliverance.