What does it mean to enter into Sabbath rest, a custom the early church sometimes called "Sevening"? Our lives have become so heavily scheduled that the whole notion of a "Sabbath" seems as foreign to us now as it did when God first introduced the Hebrew people to the concept. How can we take time/make time for a weekly, soak-in-the-Scriptures "Sevening" when so much of life threatens to "deep-six" us?

"On the seventh day God rested and drew breath" (Exodus 31:17 NJB).

"Remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work - you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns" (Exodus 20:8-10).

For most of us th…