What a sweet day of rejoicing and praising the Lord! If you have not yet embraced the doctrine of the Sabbath Day, you are missing out on one of the Lord's sweetest and richest blessings. What a delightful and fulfilling day God has given us. We work six days a week and when Saturday night comes around, we are tired and empty. But ah! There is The Sabbath Day. A day where we can rest and be filled with God. What a wonderful picture of what our heavenly home will be like. We will forever rest in God and His glory. The Sabbath Day is a glorious picture of our eternal rest. How sweet it is to spend one day of the week doing nothing but worshipping the God who created us and has given us life.
This is taken from the Westminster Shorter Catechism to help you understand more about The Sabbath Day:
Q. 57. Which is the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, 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.
Q. 58. What is required in the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to himself.
Q. 59. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?
A. From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian sabbath.
Q. 60. How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
A. The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.
Q. 61. What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omission or careless performance of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words or works, about our worldly employments or recreations.
Q. 62. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
A. The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God's allowing us six days of the week for our own employments, his challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his blessing the sabbath day.
Praise the Lord for giving us one day each week to simply rest in Him!
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I am so encouraged by you!! God has done/is doing an amazing work in you, and I pray that you allow it to continue!! It's just fantastic to read your thoughts and reflections on all that He has given to you. I look back fondly on our memories, and can't wait to continue to watch where He takes you!!
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