Sunday, June 08, 2008

• Sabbath Love And Generosity

  One of the benefits of helping with The Crossing Kids this summer is that they are going through the ten commandments.  It seems to me that as modern Christians we sometimes over look the commandments since the reside in the Old Testament, but lately one of the ten has been hitting me deep.

  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 (Exodus 20:8-11, The Message).

  JR said the following a couple of Sundays ago and it has been added to my conviction about the Sabbath: "As Christians we are glad that we don't have to work on Sundays, yet we are perfectly content with people working for us."

  I work at the local Chrisitan store and we are open on Sundays.  The longer that I have worked there the more and more convicted that maybe we should not be open.  It is the slowest day of the week and we do not enough business to keep us in the black for the day.  The people that come shopping are coming in right after church... why is that exactly?  How can people go from worshipping God at church to buying stuff at the Christian store?

  Starting today, I am going to try my best to not eat out or go shopping on Sundays.  I realize that it could exclude me from fellowship with other Christians (especially when they go out to eat).  But like I said, I am going to try... I am far from perfect so I cannot say that I am never going to go out to eat or go shopping... but I am going to try.

  Where does this commandment about the Sabbath fall for you and what you do on Sundays?

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