Ex. 31:12-13
The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: “Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath
day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever. It helps you to remember that I am the LORD,
who makes you holy.”
We have come a long ways since the Lord gave
these instructions to Moses. And….I
don’t think we have helped ourselves at all.
It is no longer widely accepted that there is a need to set aside a day
of the week to restore our bodies and souls.
Sunday is treated like any other day of the week. Somehow we have gotten the idea that as long
as we crowd the Lord somewhere into our busy schedules we are alright. We don’t regard the Lord’s Day as a sign of
the covenant between us and God.
God made a covenant with man, that if we
acknowledge Him and embrace Him as our God that He would be with us and make us
holy. He would make known to us our sin,
convict us of it, forgive us for them when we repent of them, forget they
existed, and take up residence in our hearts.
His promise to us is that if we repent of our sins and let Him be our
Savior and Lord He would never leave us or forsake us. God promises us that if we submit to His
authority over us that He would take care of us and get us safely home to
heaven.
When we observe the Lord’s Day, we are
acknowledging these things. We are
declaring that God is our God and we love and respect Him enough to set aside a
day in our week when we will focus on Him and all He has done, is doing, and
shall do in our lives. It is a day of
soul refreshment. It is a day of worship
first and foremost.
The Lord gives us a day of rest and restoration
so that we do not lose sight of Him and our need for Him to have control of our
lives. He desires to make us holy, but
before He can do it we have to get away from the rush of life and let Him. We reap what we sow and our lack of concern
to obey God in setting aside a day for Him makes us shallow and an unholy
people. The Lord takes our need to be
holy before Him seriously, and so should we.
Observing the Lord’s Day is one way in which we show the Lord that we
do. We can only be at our best when we
rest in Him.
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