Labor Day!

The calendar says today is Labor Day, but not many are "laboring".  It is a national holiday, and families are enjoying times of relaxation, feasting, and fellowship.  It is a blessing to be with loved ones at special holiday times of leisure, but it is also a great blessing to be able to labor.  There are many people today on beds of affliction who would love to be able to join you as you plan to return to your particular place of labor tomorrow.

And let us not forget that God gave us a commandment about labour, also.  We read in the 20th chapter of Exodus:  "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."

And in all of our labor, the Apostle Paul admonishes us in Colossians:  "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men."  Then, perhaps, to end our holiday, we could join in singing with J. M. Black:

     "Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun;
Let us talk of all His wondrous love and care.
      Then when all of life is over, and our work on earth is done,
And the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there."