Yesterday after church I went home… went fishing for about an hour… and then went home again. I laid in my back yard for about an hour and a half, reading and napping. It was wonderful. I got to thinking (scary huh?) while laying in the back yard about the Sunday and what it means.
To most people it is either one of two things; just another day to do whatever they want, or a special day they set aside for God. Jesus clearly came to dispel these notions. Mark 2:27-28 quotes Jesus saying to a group of Pharisees who are angry because Jesus healed someone on the Sabbath, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. [28] "So the Son of Man (Jesus) is Lord even of the Sabbath."
Biblically, the Sabbath was the seventh day of creation where God rested, sat back and enjoyed Himself and all that He had just made. In Exodus 20, God’s fourth commandment is to “Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy.” We should take God’s example on the seventh day of the week to rest and enjoy God and all that He created. The Sabbath is not a day God made for religious services, preaching, singing, or most of the things that we associate with it. It is a day God set apart for His creation to rest and to enjoy Him. It is not just another day, it is a day that we should chill out and fall more in love with God as we wrap our minds around God’s amazing qualities and flawless character.
What did you do on Sunday?
To most people it is either one of two things; just another day to do whatever they want, or a special day they set aside for God. Jesus clearly came to dispel these notions. Mark 2:27-28 quotes Jesus saying to a group of Pharisees who are angry because Jesus healed someone on the Sabbath, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. [28] "So the Son of Man (Jesus) is Lord even of the Sabbath."
Biblically, the Sabbath was the seventh day of creation where God rested, sat back and enjoyed Himself and all that He had just made. In Exodus 20, God’s fourth commandment is to “Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy.” We should take God’s example on the seventh day of the week to rest and enjoy God and all that He created. The Sabbath is not a day God made for religious services, preaching, singing, or most of the things that we associate with it. It is a day God set apart for His creation to rest and to enjoy Him. It is not just another day, it is a day that we should chill out and fall more in love with God as we wrap our minds around God’s amazing qualities and flawless character.
What did you do on Sunday?
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