Who is Lord of our
Sabbath? Think about it for a
moment. Take a look at what you do on
the Lord's Day on a regular basis. What
you do says a lot about who is Lord of your Sabbath Day. Do you spend most of your time rejuvenating
your soul or do you spend it exhausting your soul?
The Lord instituted a
day of rest for us in our week because He knows how exhausting life can be and
our tendency to fill our days up with exhausting activities. He knows that we are prone to focus more on
our activities than we are our souls. He
knows that left to ourselves, we would not be spiritually refreshed enough to
survive spiritually.
So much of our
spiritual struggles stem from our lack of proper attention to our souls on the
Lord's Day. In order to get the most
from the Lord's Day, we need to stop doing all the things we do the other days
of the week. We need to refuse to use
the day to "catch up" on all the things we do not find time for the
rest of the week. We need to make a real
effort at letting the Lord be our focus and purify our souls before Him.
If Jesus is not the
Lord of your Sabbath Day, you are missing out on the best of what the Lord has
for you. You are depriving your soul of
essential time with the Lord that you need for spiritual growth. You are depriving others of seeing you at
your best instead of your worst. You are
settling for far from the best of what the Lord wants to do in your life.
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