“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.” (Exodus 20:8; Deuteronomy 5:12 in different wording)
This week has become one of concurrent craziness, desperation and movement, and constant “cover where I fail’s”. Now that Saturday’s close, there are more things to do, like going to Yabucoa on Saturday and Orocovis on Sunday. And, yes, the moving is the other crazy thing! Next week will be a week of moving hell, and I’m expecting a lot of tears, laughter and hurry! (Or, that’s just what I would do?)
But one of the things I long for, like everyone, is peace. Just some time to rest in the midst of all my hoopla, out of my life, and just chilling with God. Maybe be in quiet; maybe just… talk about the most mundane of nonsense to Him (I know He will listen), hopes, fears, desires and the occasional forgiveness. For that, He designed Saturday: to lay on rest, on His love.
It has also become one of contention. Does this mean that I should stop doing what I know to just do nothing? (Yay!) It’s been a pseudo-controversy if we have to guard the Fourth Commandment or just rest on His grace. (This reminds me: my best friend is an Adventist, and they keep the Sabbath. They go to church on Saturday.)
If we do keep the Sabbath, wouldn’t that be keeping the Law? Wouldn’t that be tripping with that rock the Jews tripped of frequently? Because the author of Hebrews writes:
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience. (Hebrews 4:9-11)
“Therefore let no one act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day–things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.” (Collosians 2:16-17)