The Sabbath Commandment

Covenant with God

Signs of God's Covenant

Circumcision

Exodus 20:8-11 The Message

8-11 Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to God, your God. Don’t do any work—not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town. For in six days God made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.

For Reflection:

I think that the picture above was taken on a Sunday morning after attending church in Annapolis Maryland. The town was filled with tourists and commerce was flourishing. The old American blue laws that forbid most commerce on Sundays was struck down so long ago that many people don't remember those days.

Because so many American Christians work on Sundays the meaning and observance of the Sabbath is questioned.  How do we now define work? Is the Sabbath a strict 7th-day event or is God's intent that we just set aside time to contemplate God's favor and rest from the constraints and pressure of our material lives?

Pray 
Pray for those whose lives are so hurried that they take little time to examine their relationship to God and don't set aside time for the recreation of their souls.