3 Bible Tips: Delighting in God's Sabbath
1. Jesus said the Sabbath was made for our benefit. Thank God for the blessing!
"And He said to them, 'The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath'" (Mark 2:27-28).
2. God wants us to call the Sabbath a delight.
"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own words, then you shall delight yourself in the Lord; and I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of the Lord has spoken" (Isaiah 58:13-14).
3. The Sabbath reflects the physical and spiritual rest God gives. Enjoy and appreciate it!
"For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: 'And God rested on the seventh day from all His works' [from Genesis 2:2]; and again in this place: 'They shall not enter My rest' [Psalm 95:11; the Promised Land was just a type of the spiritual rest promised in the Kingdom of God, which is here also beautifully symbolized by the Sabbath]… There remains therefore a rest [sabbatismos, Sabbath rest] for the people of God" (Hebrews 4:4-5, 9).
For more about delighting in the Sabbath, see God's Sabbath in Today's World from the booklet Sunset to Sunset: God's Sabbath Rest.