I find out of the You find yourself exhausted because of your schedule, not just yours, but everyone else in your household as well.

Between the daily demands of work and home and school, various social and recreational calendars, life can feel overwhelming.

Well, guess what? God has a gift for you. Will you accept it? Alistair Begg tells us about God's

gift today on Truth for Life.

It's told of a Scottish minister who was minister to a Scottish congregation that on one winter's evening,

instead of walking to church as he was wont to do, he determined that since the river ran by both his house and the church building, and since the river was completely frozen, that he would on this evening skate

to church, because he liked to skate and he was a good skater.

And so to the great surprise of a number of the congregation

who were arriving just at the time that the somewhat weary minister arrived on his skates,

he shows up at the entrance to the church, clutching his skates and rather flushed, but ready to conduct the worship of the evening.

This incident spawned an immediate elders' meeting

following the evening worship, and they met to debate whether there was a legitimacy in the

minister having skated to the evening worship on the Lord's Day. They discussed the matter at some length, and the argument

raged back and forth on the question of whether the practicality of getting to the church

with relative Eves took precedence over the keeping of the Sabbath. Which of the two, they argued,

should be the prime consideration. And then at last,

somebody hit on the vital question, turning to the minister, they asked, may we ask you,

Pastor, did you enjoy skating up the river? The inference, of course, being that pleasure and the Lord's Day must

inevitably be mutually exclusive. Now, I come from that kind of background and therefore wasn't

surprised to discover this quote by the wife of C.S. Lewis. She says the negative Sabbath of modern times

seems to have originated in the bitter religious strife of the 17th century. In Scotland at that time,

one poor wretch was hauled into court for smiling on the Sabbath. And then she says,

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