While absolutely necessary, it takes humility to sabbath rest. Yet, this humility is rooted, not in attempting to prove to ourselves that we have it within us, but rather to submit and worship the Lord through our willingness to become nothing in submission to the Lord.
While absolutely necessary, it takes humility to sabbath rest. Yet, this humility is rooted, not in attempting to prove to ourselves that we have it within us, but rather to submit and worship the Lord through our willingness to become nothing in submission to the Lord.
By observing the Sabbath, we cease our doing and rest in our being, knowing that the love God has for us does not scaled with our productivity by remains constant regardless of our actions.
God designed mankind to work in the same way that God designed mankind to rest and Sabbath. Both are vital to worshipping and glorifying God in the entirety of our lives. The two ditches the Christian faces push them to either be in a perpetual state of sabbath rest, something God did not intend, or a perpetual state of work, something that God equally did not intend. Instead, the one who follows God should find an equal emphasis on rest and work as God commands each to be done in a specific way. In each case, though, they are done as if we are doing them representing and working for the Lord.
