28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you...and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Exodus 20:8-11 says,
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work ...
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth ... and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it
The commandment to come unto me and find rest is interesting because we are also commanded to labor. The Lord is not condemning labor for labor's sake, but is transforming labor into his rest, which we know from D&C 84:24 is the fulness of his glory. He does not call, come all ye lazy, but calls those of us who are laboring. The act of laboring allows the call to join him in his yoke. If we are unwilling to labor in the first place, he doesn't invite us to share his burden.
The first presidency said, back in 1936, with the establishment of the welfare program that, Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership.
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