30 Days of Gratitude: Day 7

The Importance of Sabbath.

When I talk about remembering the importance of Sabbath, I don’t mean that it has to be every Sunday. There are different sectors within the Christ-following world where Sabbath is honored on a different day than Sunday. The day you celebrate a Sabbath is not what is important: what is important is that you honor God by taking time to just be.

Sabbath is supposed to be a day of rest. More than just being rest, it is a chance to decompress and to reconnect with God. In the busy world that we all live in, it can be very difficult to give God 24 hours in one set time. Being grateful and honoring the Sabbath means giving him 24 hours out of your week to just be. God desires a connection with each one of us. God wants us to talk to him, and to let him in to everything that’s going on in our lives. He knows all things, but he wants to hear our voice. He wants to hear from us.

Dedicate a set time every day to be in prayer and study of His word. Be willing to set aside technology because it distracts us from being truly present. Go outside and look around at the creation that is surrounding you. Honor the ways that God works outside of your normal setting. do something that helps serve someone else.

Genesis 2:2–3

And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Psalm 92:1–4

It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High, proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp. For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord;  I sing for joy at what your hands have done.

Isaiah 56:2

“Blessed is the one who does this—the person who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps their hands from doing any evil.”

Matthew 12:5–8

“Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent? I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”