(Exodus 20:8) “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
Today is the 19th of December and a Sunday, a day of rest or a Sabbath day as most South African find that they do not have to work on a Sunday. Whether the Sabbath is on a Saturday or Sunday is not the point, the Lord Jesus reminds us that the Sabbath was instituted for man and not man for the Sabbath. (Mark 2:27) “And he said unto them, the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:” It is one day of the week were we do not need to work but rather to find rest in Him. In the Wilderness the children of Israel needed to gather food on a daily basis. However on the Sabbath day they did not have to gather as it was a day of rest for them. It was their reward for their obedience from God to them. If the principle is clear and we understand the purpose of the Sabbath then why do we not take it and make it our own. We should remember to relax and rest in Him; we should just sit back and feed on Him, Church, a good Christian book, the bible, fellowship with other believers and we should begin to embrace this principle more and more as we see that day approaching. What day? A day that is just over the horizon, the day when an angel will sound a trumpet alerting heaven that the eminent return of the Lord Jesus is here. That it has finally arrived! It is only those with the Spirit of God, only those who have been born of the spirit, the explanation the Lord Jesus gives to Nicodemus in the book of John chapter 3 explaining the new birth. All those who belong to the Lord Jesus and have been sanctified by His blood, all the true sheep and not the goats that feed amongst the sheep. We are warned by the Lord that there will be two in the field the one taken and the other one left behind. (Luke 17:36) “There shall be two men in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.” So if we have an opportunity to gather with other believer on the day of our rest then lets us find reason to do that instead of reasons why we should not gather with other believers. The point of fellowship is so that we (like minded people) can encourage one another to press on, to believe our God and remind one another that there is a day coming when it will all be over, the rest for every believer is just around the corner. That is why we have also been given the Sabbath day to ultimately remind us of our final rest in Christ and in Heaven, within the walls of the New Jerusalem. So remember today and find rest in the Lord Jesus, by remembering the sabbath, may it stir up our hope for that eternal rest that is coming. What a day that will be when we meet our Lord and Saviour in the clouds, when corruption will be swallowed up by incorruption, may that truth captivate you mind today and may we all find rest in Him, Amen.
Signing off
Tyrone
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