Isaiah 58:13-14 (NIV)13
"If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you
please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD's
holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and
not doing as you please or speaking idle words,14
then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride
on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your
father Jacob." The mouth of the LORD has spoken.
In the way that only God can do, He then tells of what He has in store for us in verse 14. All that we seek to achieve and fulfill by doing as we please will be replaced by God’s abundance when we keep our worship on Him. Rest, fulfillment, blessing and honor are a natural outflow of honoring the Sabbath, but we must relinquish our own pursuits to receive them.
This excerpt came from my research at Breathe / Arts in Worship on the Sabbath today. After a month of Lent.. and 'unplugging', I was anxious not to lose the sense of rest, perspective, and seemingly unlimited time that resulted.
I began to look into why we no longer observe the Sabbath when it was such a part of the fabric of society on a few decades ago. I begin to suspect the Sabbath might be the answer to the stress and busy-ness of our modern society.
What do you think?
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