Keep the Sabbath

My next topic is going to be on keeping the Sabbath. This commandment ought to be obvious. But I am aware that many professing Christians do not keep the sabbath day holy. 

So what does it mean to keep the sabbath?  Does it mean we occasionally go to church?  Does it mean we mean we get a day off work?

Let's be honest and ask ourselves a few questions. Do we want to develop a relationship with our Father?  If you answered yes, then is it to much to take one day out of our week and devote it to serving him?  Or do we want a lukewarm relationship?  Ok if we want a better relationship with that means that we need to set our earthly thoughts and labor aside in exchange for spiritual things. 

So do you work on the sabbath?  I know some people have to work on Sunday. I do not wish to judge or condemn those that do. The Sabbath is not necessarily on Sunday. If we have to work on Sunday then let's set aside another day of the week as our Sabbath and try to keep it. In an ideal world we wouldn't have to work on those days but in our modern society that seems to be a reality that is increasingly difficult to get away from. But that is no excuse for ourselves and if we have to set another day of the week aside as our Sabbath then let's do that. 

What about our own personal labors I know plenty of people who will go and clean the yard and mow the lawn and take care of all these other things on what should be the Sabbath. I understand peoples lives get busy but this ought not be so. I have found in my own life that if I endeavor to accomplish all my tasks so that I can keep my Sabbath free and open I am far more blessed spiritually and temporally.  I have the time to do my studies and prayers. I also end up finding more time to do my labors during the rest of the week.  

Many people enjoy watching sports and very often these events happened to land on Sunday. For other peoples they enjoy going out and watching a movie on Sunday. Other people enjoy shopping. Others go fishing. So let's again ask another question do these things draws closer towards God or they pull us away from him?  We need to spend sabbath doing things to get us closer to God.  

There of course blessings that come with the S but they are just natural consequences to the change that begins to occur in our hearts when we keep the Sabbath. Developing a relationship with our Father in heaven is a blessing. I have observed in watching others that those who consistently break the sabbath are also the same people who consistently become very different in their spiritual lives and her very often the ones that begin a path that leads to trouble.