Father God, When I consider the awesome magnitude of all creation—from the minutiae of the atom to the grandeur of the universe—I am impressed that You took time to rest and reflect when Creation was complete.
Yet this generation has forgotten how to rest and worship each week, filling the time with golf, fishing, sports TV, and all sorts of self-gratification. Commerce moves on as though nothing is sacred. The clock ticks louder than the call to worship.
Forgive us, LORD. We have traded holy for busy. We have swapped surrender for striving. We have filled the silence with noise.
Create new spirits in our nation to honor You on Your special day. Let the Sabbath be honored—not as legalism, but as liberation. Not as obligation, but as joy.
Then, may all our days—filled with the stuff of living—be brought to You in praise and gratitude for Your many inestimable gifts.
This I pray in the matchless name of Him who was there when it all began… Jesus, my Brother and my LORD. Amen.
Verses for Today: "By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy." — (Genesis 2:2-3)
"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy... for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth... and he rested on the seventh day." — (Exodus 20:8, 11)
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." — (Matthew 11:28)
"There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God... Anyone who enters God's rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his." — (Hebrews 4:9-10)
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made." — (John 1:1, 3)
