The Sabbath

I love the storms spring brings in.  The wind, the rain, the thunder, the lightning...What a wonderful gift God has given us to appreciate storms and sunshine whether in weather or in life!  Unfortunately, sin has tainted how weather affects our lives and our homes...but I believe we can still enjoy storms- with a healthy fear of the power behind them.  I feel the perfect day to enjoy a storm is on a Saturday!

^{Exodus 20:8
8} Remember to dedicate the Sabbath day: ⁹ You are to labor six days and do all your work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates. ¹¹ For the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.

We are called to rest for one full day of the week.  Our American calendar makes that day Saturday or Sunday...the seventh day of the week.  And on this day we are to do NOTHING.  We are to rest.  We are to relax.  NO work should be done.  No housework.  No office work.  No business calls.  Just rest and relaxation and time to sit back and ENJOY what God has done for us through the week...

By the seventh day, God completed His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. (Gen.2:2)

God rested and observed all that he had created and declared it good.  We are to emulate God in this way...we are to rest and observe all the work God has done through us in the past six days and see that He has declared it good (every moment of it!  For, all things work together for the Good of those who love God!)  Have you observed your day of rest this week?  It doesn't have to be Saturday or Sunday...it doesn't matter what day you take your rest, just that you take it.  It's a commandment from our creator!

XOXOX