Book Review - Rest of God by Mark Buchanan

I started this book about a year ago. I thought it was an interesting concept and began to slowly work through it. I would read other books and then come back to it. My reading the book is kind of an allegory to the point of the book. Buchanan feels that we need to develop a Sabbath principle in our lives, a day focused for Worship and rest. Society has placed us on a treadmill of activity and we work and leisure ourselves to the point of exhaustion. As I read the book I found myself thinking this is an important Biblical concept and then I would get drawn to something else. I've come to realize, as Buchanan has, that I am not a machine made for constant activity. I am a human being with limits. Not only do I have limits, God seems to have put within me a default setting that needs Sabbath. I am not complete with out it.

I found the book a little slow at times, Buchanan's long description of things a little tedious, but in the end I found myself saying, "I need to go through this again". I need to slow down even more and fully embrace the principle of Sabbath laid out at the end of each chapter. I must be obedient to God and work this principle out in my life.