Meditate.
Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the LORD your God. On that day no one in your household may do any work. This includes you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, your livestock, and any foreigners living among you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy. Exodus 20:8-11
God hasn’t forgotten the importance of the
day of rest…of observing the Sabbath.
God's promise of entering his rest still
stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to
experience it. For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been
announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they
didn't share the faith of those who listened to God. For only we who believe
can enter his rest. As for the others, God said, "In my anger I took an
oath: 'They will never enter my place of rest,'" even though this rest has
been ready since he made the world. We know it is ready because of the place in
the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day: "On the seventh day God
rested from all his work." But in the other passage God said, "They
will never enter my place of rest." So God's rest is there for people to
enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they
disobeyed God. So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is
today. God announced this through David much later in the words already quoted:
"Today when you hear his voice, don't harden your hearts." Now if
Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about
another day of rest still to come. So there is a special rest still waiting
for the people of God. For all who have entered into God's rest have rested
from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. So let us do our
best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we
will fall. Hebrews 4:1-11
Prayer ~ Lord, Blessed are all those who are careful to do this. Blessed are those who honor Your Sabbath days of rest and keep themselves from doing wrong. From Isaiah 56:2. I want to honor You in all that I think, say and do…on Your Sabbath…as I wait for Your return, Jesus.
Verse
of Salvation ~ This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:
"Only in returning to me and resting in me will you be saved. In
quietness and confidence is your strength. But you would have none of it."
Isaiah 30:15
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