It’s Friday! Yes, it’s Friday! But did you know that there is a reason why we are happy that it’s already Friday? Because innate in us is the concept of rest.
We all have seen the culture of hustle proliferate, wherein you work until you reach your goals.
But have we ever thought about getting rest? What about keeping the Sabbath? or keeping the Lord’s Day?
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. “Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.”
In that period, Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians to work nonstop and torturously. And when the Israelites were saved by God through Moses and Aaron on their exodus from Egypt, God wrote the Ten Commandments, including the observance of the Sabbath. In Genesis, we can see that in the creation account, God rested after a productive six days.
So what does this mean for us? It’s about making the Sabbath holy and setting one day of the week to rest and make time for the most important things in life—God and family. The Sabbath, as Dennis Prager and others have noted, also reveals who we worship. If work is worshipped over God, then this shows in the lack of Sabbath in our weekly lifestyle.
In addressing this, let us schedule our lives in a way that will honor God through a weekly keeping of the Sabbath.
I’m Andrew, a Christian from Cebu, for #KananPH
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