“If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot from doing your own pleasure on My holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and honor it, desisting from your own ways, from seeking your own pleasure and speaking your own word,
Then you will take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
Isaiah 58:13-14 NASB
We've thought of Sunday as "Day of Rest," and gradually, it has become a day to sleep, or quietly enjoy ourselves. While "the Sabbath is made for man, not man for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27), it is also characterized as "The Day of the Lord." It's not a day to focus on our hobbies, slouch on the sofa watching TV, or have planning meetings for ministry (did I just say that?), but a day to delight in the Lord.
Food for thought.
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