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The Love Principle - Study 7: Rest For Your God

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Exodus 20:8-11 NIV 

[8] “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. [9] Six days you shall labor and do all your work, [10] but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. [11] For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 

This world is full of people who do extravagant things for love. The Taj Mahal in India, for example, is one of the wonders of the world. It was built by a loving husband to house the tomb of his wife.


In the city of Cebu, Philippines, on a hill with a splendid view of the valley below, is the Temple of Leah, which a rich man built to honour his wife, while (allegedly) cheating on her behind her back. 


There are also other grand gestures people are required to do to express the devotion.


People pay sums of money or fast or make pilgrimages. In Turkmenistan, there is even a hill which every Turkmen is required to climb once a year to show their devotion to their leader. 


Yet here, in the Ten Commandments, which are a description of how we should show our love for God, each other and ourselves, we see what God wants of us to show our love and devotion. 


He wants us to rest. 


Yes, you read it right. God wants us to rest. 


Now, we need to keep this in context. God did say that work activity would outnumber rest by at most six to one. In God’s work-life balance, the days when we work are more than the days when we rest. Work came before the Fall (Genesis 2:15), it was just made harder by the Fall (Genesis 3:17-19). 


The commandment to rest is not a commandment to be lazy. Far from it: 


2 Thessalonians 3:10-13 NIV 

[10] For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” [11] We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. [12] Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat. [13] And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good. 

We should work. We should rest. It is imperative that we get the balance right. 


Later on in this series, when we will examine how we are commanded to love ourselves, we will look at how this commandment is designed for our good, and why hard-core legalism that is often tacked on to this command does precisely the opposite.


Instead, in this study, we will look at the origins of this command and uncover why it is an expression of our love for God.  


We’ll do that by looking at three things God wants from us through this commandment. The first of these is Our Stillness. 

 

Our Stillness 

Exodus 20:8-11 NIV 

[8] “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. [9] Six days you shall labor and do all your work, [10] but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. [11] For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 

My wife is very careful when crossing the road.


The reason for this is that we live close to busy roads. There are traffic lights. However, motorists in a rush often try to beat the red lights and will zoom across the pedestrian crossing even while pedestrians are trying to cross. 


One of these days, someone will get killed. 


Ignoring stop lights is a problem. It’s an invitation for trouble and pain. 


When God first instituted the Sabbath, way back when He first fed the Israelites manna in the desert, look what happened: 


Exodus 16:21-26 NIV 

[21] Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. [22] On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much—two omers for each person—and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses. [23] He said to them, “This is what the Lord commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’ ” [24] So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. [25] “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a sabbath to the Lord. You will not find any of it on the ground today. [26] Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.” 

God provided food for them for six days, and then on the sixth day provided two days’ worth so that the people did not need to leave their tents to find food on the seventh day.


He wanted them to stop. He wanted them to rest. 


He wanted them to be still. 


Look at another famous Psalm. Although it doesn’t necessarily refer to the Sabbath, Psalm 46 is full of the chaos and noise of a very stressful life when everything seems against you. But right at the end of the Psalm we read this: 


Psalms 46:10 NIV 

[10] He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/psa.46.10.NIV)


That ostensibly was the purpose of the Sabbath rest: to lift the people above the drudgery and stress and strain of every day life to realise that God is still God and He has this under control. It was a reminder that: 


Deuteronomy 8:3 NIV 

[3] ... man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.  

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/deu.8.3.NIV)


In other words, it reminded the Israelites that there was much more to life than the everyday battle to survive.  


God still wants us to stop. He still wants us to see Him as He is. He still wants us to lift our head above the struggle and the pain. 


My boss was on a senior management meeting this week when one of his colleagues appeared to be talking on camera, but on mute. Their boss kept trying to ask this guy questions about his work, and he kept talking but no-one could hear him. After multiple attempts to reach him, the man on mute signalled to his mobile. He had been on a call to his insurance company all throughout the call, and was not paying one bit of attention to even his own boss. 


By anyone’s standards, that’s really rude. We don’t like it when someone is playing on their phone or otherwise distracted while we’re trying to talk to them. It irritates us that they’re not paying any attention. 


Why? 


Because it displays an indifference, as if we are not worthy of their attention. It demeans us.

 

And then we come to the Sabbath.  It’s a Sabbath ‘to the LORD your God’. Literally, a pause for the Lord. 


On this one day above of all others, the Lord should have our full attention. He commands us to stop work so we can cease from distractions and listen to Him. Then we can say with Samuel: ‘Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening’. 


We ought to be listening every day of the week. But the Sabbath, that one day of the week, is the time when we turn down the volume of every day life and turn up the volume on God. 


Giving Him that attention gives Him His rightful place in our lives. It demonstrates that we love Him, because we want to spend time with Him and listen to Him. 


We might like to have a lie in on a Sunday. We might like to have a nap. We might relish the peace and quiet. 


But at its heart, the Sabbath is about none of these. It’s not just a Sabbath from activities, it’s a Sabbath to God. 


If we forget the last part, then our Sabbath is a wasted day. 


Apart from our stillness, we also see that the Sabbath is about Our Dependence. 

 

Our Dependence 

Exodus 20:9-10 NIV 

[9] Six days you shall labor and do all your work, [10] but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.  

Exodus 16:21-23, 29-30 NIV 

[21] Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. [22] On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much—two omers for each person—and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses. [23] He said to them, “This is what the Lord commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’ ” 
[29] Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.” [30] So the people rested on the seventh day. 

Leviticus 25:20-22 NIV 

[20] You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?” [21] I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. [22] While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in. 

Often in the Bible, and in history, we see people carrying out extraordinary acts of faith. And these are inspiring. Hebrews 11 in particular lists many of them. 


We know also that faith should produce action. James fold us clearly that faith without works is dead (James 2:14-26). 


But here, in this commandment, faith is demonstrated through no work. Faith is demonstrated through inactivity. Faith is demonstrated through rest. 


How? 


When the Sabbath was first instituted, the Israelites were a nomadic community. They were roaming through the desert with their flocks and herds. Their usual work would be to take care of their animals and households. Their usual work was to take care of their families. 


That usual work included gathering manna (Exodus 16:16-17).  


This manna appeared every day, except on the Sabbath (Exodus 16:27). They were to collect double the amount on the day before the Sabbath to ensure that they would have enough (Exodus 16:22) for the Sabbath.


Normally if they kept manna they had collected to the next day, it became full of maggots and began to smell bad (Exodus 16:20). But on the day before the Sabbath, they needed to trust God that a) they would have enough for the two days, and b) it would not rot. 


During the Sabbath, they were to stay in their tents and rest (Exodus 16:29-30). Their servants and their livestock were also supposed to rest (Exodus 20:9-10). 


In resting, they were expressing both their faith in God and their dependence on Him. They had no way of providing for themselves without Him. But His provision came on His terms.


Those terms were that once every seven days they should rest. And by resting, they were exercising their faith. 


Now, this aspect of Sabbath has long been forgotten. We Christians celebrate Sabbath on Sunday, and not, as our Jewish cousins do, on Saturday. For most people in the Western world – and, indeed, in much of Asia too – Sunday is just another day. People work on Sunday. They go shopping in malls. They provide for themselves. The aspect of dependence on God on the Sabbath is missing from our agenda.  


Part of the reason for that is that all of technology and wealth and commerce has masked our dependency on Him. We think we are providing for ourselves  when in reality God is always providing for us. 


The Sabbath was designed so the first Jews would be done with any notion that they had provided for themselves by their own efforts, and be grateful for what God had provided them. In fact, Moses summed up the whole experience in the desert like this: 


Deuteronomy 8:2-5 NIV 

[2] Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. [3] He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. [4] Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. [5] Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/deu.8.2-5.NIV)


The purpose of the Sabbath was for the Israelites to stop working and start reflecting on their journey and all God had provided for them. 


Remember that the word for ‘Sabbath’ in Hebrew comes from the Hebrew word meaning ‘to stop’.  


The Israelites had also been commanded to give their land a Sabbath: every seven years the land was supposed to lie fallow and not be farmed (Leviticus 25:1-22). Believe it or not, this idea of letting land recover from being farmed is actually a good idea as it restores nutrients to the soil. 


But despite it making sense and helping their land become even more productive, the Israelites didn’t do it. We know that because of a simple sentence right at the and of 2 Chronicles, as the Jews were taken into exile: 


2 Chronicles 36:21 NIV 

[21] The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/2ch.36.21.NIV)


Some scholars believe that the length of time from the reign of the first King Saul to the Exile was four hundred and ninety years – seventy times seven (see Matthew 18:22). In all that time, among a multitude of other sins, we do not find any record in the Bible of this Sabbath year for the land being consistently obeyed. It wasn’t the only sin that caused the Exile – there were many, many other sins. 


But the fact is that a side-effect of the Exile was that the land was finally able to receive the rest it should have had. 


Why is this important? 


Because like that land, we all need fallow periods of inactivity and rest to be able to give our best. If we don’t listen to the rhythm of our bodies and get adequate rest, we will burn out and become exhausted and unproductive. 


Did you know that twice in history people with a left-wing, Communist ideology tried to change this working rhythm? 


The French Revolutionaries tried to ‘de-Christianise’ France by introducing a ten-day working week, thinking it was the most ‘logical’ thing to do. It failed. It was deeply unpopular with the workers they represented. They hated it because they had gone from having a day off every seven days to a day off every ten days. 


The Russian communists actually tried to introduce a continuous, rolling five or six day working week to increase productivity and keep factories open 24/7. It failed. Societal cohesion broke down because husbands and wives were on different shifts. 


Look at the cultures where there is an aggressive focus on production and a lack of care about adequate rest times: USA – there is a good reason why therapists make a fortune; Japan and Korea – smaller families, higher suicides; China – serious lack of women for men to marry, huge wealth gap. These nations also have phenomenal health issues as a result of being so demanding. 


We need to learn the lesson. Production and financial gain are not our gods. Our God does not want us burned out and exhausted. They are not favourable states to be in. We were not created for this. 


We need to learn to stop, rest and reflect. 


That is what the true Sabbath is all about. 


We have seen, then, that the true Sabbath is one of stillness and of reflecting on our dependence on God for everything – it reminds us who we really are. But this should also cause us to review our Observance to see if we are really keeping it as we should. 

 

Observance 

Exodus 20:8 NIV 

[8] “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.  

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/exo.20.8.NIV)


Exodus 31:12-13 NIV 

[12] Then the Lord said to Moses, [13] “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy. 

I realise that now I am treading on very controversial ground. However, I would like us to look at how we as modern Christian celebrate our Sabbath day. 


Every Sunday is a race to get ready. We wash. We put on clean clothes. We eat breakfast. We make sure our children are ready. We get out of the house as soon as possible, usually realising that we are running late. If we're driving, we’re thankful it’s not rush hour, but still competing with the road works that invariably happen at the weekend and other drivers. 


When we get to church, perhaps breathlessly sneaking in during the first couple of songs, people have been there long before us: the tech crew, stewards, worship band and caterers have all been in early to set up. Sunday school teachers have been making final preparation for their classes. Pastors and preachers have been getting ready.  


We might have rushed in at the last minute, but others have been working hard to make sure that we and our children are blessed. I even heard of one church where the technical setup begins at midnight before the service! 


We rush home. We have lunch. Then dinner. Then we go back and do it all again. 


I want you to answer this question: 


Is Sunday a day of rest for you? 


Be honest. 


The answer is more than likely ‘No’. Because it isn’t. For some of us, particularly those in full time ministry, it’s the busiest day of the week. Jesus noted this when it came to the Temple staff: 


Matthew 12:5 NIV 

[5] Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?  

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.12.5.NIV)


How did they do this? 


Simple: for everyone else there was a command to do no regular work on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10). That is, they should do nothing that would provide them with an income. 


Serving in the Temple was the priests’ regular work and it was the means by which they provided themselves with an income, so they were not resting on the Sabbath and were therefore desecrating it. 


The one group of people who were supposed to be enforcing the rules were breaching them. 


Every full time Christian worker with a church-based ministry does the same thing.


In fact, every Christian who goes to church likely does the same thing, because we are not resting. 


Plus, the Sabbath was supposed to be used for rest and reflection. So if we are in church, thinking we are keeping the Sabbath, but our mind is elsewhere, distracted by worldly cares, then we are not keeping the Sabbath, because we are not holding to the basic principles of the Sabbath. 


The Sabbath was never about showing our face and getting our name checked on a register. It was always a lot more than that. 


Now, I don’t want you to misunderstand me. I am absolutely not against going to church.


Far from it: as people who profess to love the Lord we should want to be in church. It’s good for us to be there: 


Hebrews 10:23-25 NIV 

[23] Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. [24] And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, [25] not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. 

But this cannot be the sum total of our Sabbath observance. There has to be more to it than that. 


There is an interesting turn of phrase shortly after the Holy Spirit was poured out at Pentecost: 


Acts 2:46-47 NIV 

[46] Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, [47] praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. 

The new disciples didn’t just meet once a week – they met every day. 


Although in Acts 20:7 and 1 Corinthians 16:2 we see references about Christian meetings taking place on the first day of the week, nowhere is it mandated in the Bible that the church should meet on Sundays – or, indeed, any day. 


The fact is that the day of the week when we keep the Sabbath is actually irrelevant. It doesn’t matter. The way we keep the Sabbath is. 


This is amazingly liberating. No longer we chained to the legalism of keeping any particular day as special. If we are in a country where Sunday is a normal working day but Friday or Saturday are not, we can gather together then. If we are unable to gather with other Christians on a Sunday because of work shifts (e.g. if we work in medicine or other trades when we may have to work on a Sunday), we no longer need to be wracked with guilt. 


The reality is that true Sabbath keeping is not about simply turning up in church. The idea of meeting once a week was not invented or mandated by Jesus. 


 Instead, it was a development that took place during the Exile when synagogues were set up. That is what Jewish history teaches us. 


It was a tradition. 


Neither is it tied particularly to a day of the week. Yes, Jesus was raised on a Sunday. Yes, the Jews always celebrate their Sabbath on a Saturday. 


However, there is only a one in four chance that the birth of the church at Pentecost took place on a Sunday because the Jewish festival of Shavuot on which it is based can either be on a Sunday, Monday, Wednesday or Friday. So while churches always celebrate Pentecost on a Sunday, Jews don’t. Not all the time. 


Moreover, there is a verse in the New Testament that changes everything about Christian observance of the Sabbath: 


Romans 14:5 NIV 

[5] One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.  

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/rom.14.5.NIV)


What we see is the foremost Jewish background believer of His day, who is much admired by the most conservative of modern theologians – Paul the Apostle – telling the Early Church that it’s perfectly okay if people in the church don’t celebrate the Sabbath on a particular day and consider all days to be the same. 


Before we become all agitated, we need to remember that Paul was writing this to Roman Gentile Christians, and Gentiles did not celebrate a particular day of the week as being dedicated to their god. When the church extended to the Gentiles, the Jewish Christians were decidedly minimalist in their requirements and did not include Sabbath observance as one of them (Acts 15:19-29). 


What is more, we even see this in the Old Testament: 


Psalms 118:24 NKJV 

[24] This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. 

There is nothing in this Psalm to indicate that it only applied to the Sabbath. 


So if Sabbath-keeping is not about going to church and not about a particular day of the week, what is it? 


We need to get back to the very essence of what Sabbath was: a day of rest for God and reflection on God. That should not happen on a particular day, because every day is the Lord’s. Instead, it should happen every day. We should take a little part of every day to rest in the Lord’s presence, meditate on His Word and ponder the greatness of who He is and what He has done. 


That is what Sabbath-keeping is truly all about. 


So should we go to church? Of course! Fellowship with God’s people and listening to teaching from His Word is absolutely essential. 


But does it have to happen on a particular day? No. 


And should we keep the Sabbath? Absolutely! 


We should keep it every day. 


Because wanting to do so is an expression of our love for God. 

 

Conclusion 

Exodus 20:8-10 NIVUK 

[8] Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. [9] Six days you shall labour and do all your work, [10] but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.  

Perhaps you think that what I've had to say in this study is thought-provoking. Or maybe just provocative. Given how strident, and some might say, militant, some people are about protecting Sunday as a day of worship, maybe you thought that this was as dangerous as waving a red rag to a bull. 


But here’s the thing: it isn’t the colour red that provokes the bull, it’s actually the movement of the rag. That rag could be blue or pink or purple or striped or polka-dotted, it would still have the same effect. 


In the same way, for centuries people have thought that keeping the Sabbath meant simply turning up in church on Sunday and not doing a bunch of other things meant that they could have the other six days to themselves to do whatever they want.


This led to theology being twisted and warped until, in Culiácan, Sinaloa Province, Mexico, there is a shrine to Jésus Malverde, the so-called ‘Patron Saint of Drug Traffickers’, where cartel members go to pray for protection and success before carrying out heinous and violent deeds that harm the lives of many thousands of people. 


At the risk of finding myself on some hit list or other, this has absolutely nothing to do with Biblical Christianity. 


The very idea that a few religious rituals could bribe God into letting us ‘off’ any sin at all, but especially those, is patently absurd. 


But those who believe that Sabbath observance will put themselves in God’s ‘good books’ and balance out wrongdoing on the other six days of the week are also making a similar, if less drastic, mistake.  


Jesus sees right through it: 


Matthew 15:7-9 NIVUK 

[7] You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: [8]  ‘ “These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. [9]  They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.” ’ 

Sabbath observance has to be about much more than simply religious box-ticking. 


And it is. Way more. 


In fact, it always was, right from the very beginning. 


We saw the basic principles of Sabbath-keeping: that it is fundamentally about our stillness – our ceasing from regular, productive, providing activity, and that it’s also about reflecting on our complete and utter dependence on God – for everything. 


This ought to reshape our perspective on life and make us profoundly grateful. 


You can see why the Israelites were commanded to do this one a week. 


But Jesus went beyond that. He showed us how we can have this Sabbath experience every day: 


Matthew 6:5-6 NIVUK 

[5]  ‘And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. [6] But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.  

When we spend time with God in the quiet, behind a closed door and without anyone else being present, we can just be ourselves. We aren’t expending energy in pretence or performance. Our focus is purely on God and we are truly at rest. 


This, from what I can see in Scripture, is the truly authentic Sabbath experience. 


Whenever we look at the fourth commandment, it causes a bit of discomfort and debate.


We know that the way we ‘do’ Sundays in the modern world does not match up with the original intentions for the Sabbath. We must do. It’s strikingly obvious. 


We also know people who pile so much legalism on top of this command that it seems like they believe their salvation depends on it.


Also, can we really be at rest if we are uneasy about whether or not we have followed all the rules? 


I'm not so sure. 


The original design of Sabbath was one day in seven when the Israelites stopped their activities to rest and reflect on God.  


In a nomadic agricultural community like theirs, it would be so easy to become locked into work every day. There was always something to do. The balance of one day in seven to rest was designed so they could experience restoration and a change of perspective from the painful drudgery of every day life. 


It’s no less difficult for us, yet our Sundays are so very busy: less restful, more stressful. 


So how do we square this circle? How do we put the rest and reflection back into our Sabbath? 


We should go to church. That is not in question. That is necessary for our spiritual, mental, emotional and social health. If church is on a Sunday and there is nothing stopping us, then we should be there. You will not find any arguments against that from me. 


And we should want to be there, as an expression of our love for God and each other. 


But when we are there, we need to be both physically and spiritually present with the Lord. We should not allow ourselves to be distracted. 


And when we are home and not at church, we should ensure that there are regular times when we rest and reflect on who we are, who God is and what He has done for us. 


This is the real intention behind Sabbath. 


If this idea still unnerves you, I want you to imagine that you have someone you love. However, your relationship with them concerns you. The issue is that they only contact you once a week. You call them on other days; they don’t pick up the phone. You text them or DM them; they don’t respond. 


How would that feel? 


Our relationship with God cannot be just for one day a week. We cannot say we love Him if He can only speak to us for one day in seven. 


So yes, I believe that we should keep the Sabbath. And yes, I believe we should go to church. 


But how we do it is the true measure of whether or not we are really keeping the Sabbath day holy. 

 

Prayer 

Lord Jesus, I find myself so often not keeping Your Sabbath holy in the way that I should. Help me to find time to rest and reflect, but also to play my part in Your church family. Amen. 

 

Questions for Contemplation  

  • Do you keep the Sabbath? How? 

  • What were the two intentions for Sabbath? Do you do these? 

  • How will you improve your Sabbath observance from now on? 

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