Exodus 20: 8-11: “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
This commandment acknowledges that the Lord is in control of our day to day existence. The Lord created the world in six days and He rested on the seventh day. In order to celebrate that fact the Lord declared the seventh day as a day of rest for all time. As usual, the Lord allows us to choose if we want to celebrate this day of rest or not. However, for people who choose to have an ongoing relationship with the one true God of creation they need to trust Him and accept the pleasure of taking this day of rest. Are willing to trust the Lord and take the rest or do we want to take control of everything and work on this day as well? A person who has a day of rest on the seventh day will achieve more in a year than a person who works every day.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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