Do you ever feel tempted to skim familiar passages when you read your Bible? That’s what I was about to do as I came upon the passage in Exodus about the Sabbath.
“Yeah, yeah, Lord I know.”
But do I know? Do I really know why God intended the Sabbath for our good? Do I really believe that a day of rest is necessary for me, a happy-to-be-busy kind of girl? Am I willing to be stretched into stillness, as an act of surrender to my Sovereign God?
As I swiftly turned the page, I felt a prompting from the Holy Spirit to turn back . . . to slow down . . . and to read line-by-line with a willingness to think differently and respond from a softer heart.
You have six days for your ordinary work, but the seventh day must be a Sabbath day of complete rest, a holy day dedicated to the Lord . . . (Exodus 31:15, NLT)
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day he stopped working and was refreshed. (Exodus 31:17, NLT)
Holy conviction ushered in eager hope.
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