Sabbath!

For Sunday, November 3, 2024:

Hebrews 4:9-10 NLT: “So there is a Sabbath still waiting for the people of God. For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.”

God had big plans! When we call God our Creator, we’re typically thinking of our planet and the things it contains, things within the limits of our knowledge. But God is much bigger than that. He designed a sun and set our planet 93M miles from it to facilitate life. God completed our neighboring planets, and then set thousands of stars in the sky, each with its own galactic system, all gravitationally balanced with the others in the sky. Like I said, it was a big job, but God was up for the task!

He completed the work in six days. (Let’s not argue about how long a day is. Our planet didn’t even have days until the sun was in place and the earth started spinning!) On the seventh day, God stepped back, looked at all he had created, and declared it to be “very good.” Following God’s example, we should take a day, temporarily step out of our lives, look in the window and make an honest assessment of how things are going. Most of us won’t find “very good.” Some things will need adjustment, course corrections. The knowledge we gain from a rigorous self-examination allows us to proactively live the Lord’s way rather than simply reacting when something goes wrong!

We can use the Sabbath to get ourselves back on track, back to the Lord’s ways!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus In the City Fellowship