day no. 14,605: ordinary work

Numbers 28-29
There are times where we are commanded to set aside the daily grind in order to focus on divinity. This also means that there are times where our focus on divinity is part of, or alongside, our respective daily grinds. It is not right to extract the principle from the Passover and lay it over the rest of the year. For example, it would be wrong to say, "If it's good to ignore common work 2 weeks per year, imagine how good ignoring it all year round would be." This error assumes that more of something is better simply because there is more of it. But this leap ignores the boundaries assigned and categories commanded by the Creator. God made ordinary work and people to ordinarily assign themselves the tasks of completing it. There are times when it is good to set these common chores aside for intensified focus, but it is unwise and unbiblical to assume the only time we focus at all on God is during set aside times of solace. We are to be working by faith, breathing by faith, waking and sleeping by faith, washing dishes by faith, wiping bottoms by faith, paying our taxes by faith, returning under-cooked steaks by faith, etc... It is ordinary, common business, but it is not intended to be absent of awareness of God.