Tag: Sabbath Studies

Wayne Muller states on page 6 in the book Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest:

Sabbath time can be a revolutionary challenge to the violence of overwork, mindless accumulation, and the endless multiplication of desires, responsibilities, and accomplishments. Sabbath is a way of being in time where we remember who we are, remember what we know, and taste the gift of spirit and eternity.

Remember God is the Ultimate Giver

Remember that it is God that is the ultimate giver. While some are trying to acquire just for the sake of acquiring, we cannot ever fall into that trap when we remember the Sabbath day as we should. During the first creation week, it was God that created all without the aid of humanity.

Remember You Must Stop

Remember that you must stop. We cannot just continue to do violence, using Muller’s term, to our own being (Body and Mind) by continuing to work without stopping. Certainly we all need permission to stop, yea even a command, because if we do not stop by choice, soon our body will stop on us.

Remember God as Creator

Muller didn’t write on this in the chapter, but one must recognize that in these last days, God evidently noted a need to remind the world that God is the creator. Revelation 14:7 declares that we should “worship Him who made.”

Perhaps God’s wants to remind the world that even though our economic systems are built on using humanity as cogs in its wheel; in God’s system humanity is not to be judged by what you accumulate. In these last days a message is going forth to remind the world that God is the creator, the Seventh-day is God’s Sabbath and we are to live in light of these facts.

When I was buying my house, I was speaking to our Realtor. It was a Friday and we were not gonna be able to finish our work. She told me that we could finish the next day, I told her we will not be able to finish the business on the next day, because it is the Sabbath.

What is the Sabbath?

She looked puzzled and ask me, what is the Sabbath? It sometimes surprises me how many people have not even heard of this amazing resource that God has given to us. I then explained, that it was a day that we lay aside all of our regular business so that we can become closer to God and each other. Doing this business would detract from that purpose, so we cannot do this on the Sabbath.

I Wish I had a Sabbath

Our Realtor then said, we will do it on Sunday morning. She then said, “I sure wish I had a Sabbath.” I then told her that the Sabbath is not owned by any group, and that tomorrow or any Sabbath God has given you permission to stop.

Many of us would be just like that women, working and working, never stopping, if it were not for God giving us permission to just set it all aside. I pray that the Sabbath will be the blessing for you that God intended it to be.