Hebraic Musing – Another way to look at Sabbath-keeping?
The fourth commandment (Third, if you are Catholic) says “Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it
holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your
work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall
not do any work,...." NIV Deut. 5:12-14
Let's look at key statements in
these verses:
·
The
Sabbath is to be kept holy, or dedicated to the Lord's work. (Does stopping by
the Church on your way to _______ qualify as the ‘Lord’s work’?)
·
Six days you shall labor and
do all your work. That means for six days we are to do our/man's
work … and then cease whether we are finished or not. (That is so hard to do…to cease when we are
not finished.)
·
Then
on the Sabbath or seventh day we let God do His work - in us and for us. (What
does this mean?)
God is the one who ultimately determines what we will
accomplish in our daily/weekly/life endeavors.
Points
to ponder
Do
you ever finish YOUR work by week's end?
Do
we become more concerned about OUR work,
forgetting that He determines what we should really accomplish in life.
forgetting that He determines what we should really accomplish in life.
What
could we accomplish in our God-given lives
if we tithed one day a week to Him, our Creator?
24 hour x 7 days = 168 hours x 10% tithe = 16.8 hours [waking hours in a Sabbath]
if we tithed one day a week to Him, our Creator?
24 hour x 7 days = 168 hours x 10% tithe = 16.8 hours [waking hours in a Sabbath]
Shalom to your home
Yosef a.k.a. Joe Brusherd September 10, 2013
Author of two books “Hebraic Insights” and “Biblical
Marriage”
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