While
praying this morning and
focusing a little on the day
of preparation for the
Sabbath, I began to think
what it would be like if God
had not in His infinite
wisdom and love for His
people not created the
Sabbath.
Can
we picture in our minds how
lost all of us would be
without it? This is a
little of what I began to
think this morning.
We
would be like wandering
stars in space without
purpose and objective and in
time to come to lose our
light and be consumed by the
blackness of darkness
forever! Nothing to
keep us reminded of the
beginning of physical
creation nor of the
millennium soon to come.
And
by so doing, we would lose
touch with our Creator God
and His plan for us.
Each
Seventh Day, followed by six
workdays of each and every
week, brings us back to the
realization of our Creator
and His purpose for us as
His people.
And
to obey the command by God
to assemble before Him in
Congregational worship, as
God makes possible in one
way or another, is to keep
us from focusing on the
things of less importance
and could possibly move us
farther away from Him.
And
that could be a very great
danger for us Spiritually!
In
addition to the Sabbath to
be a reminder of
creation, which has made
possible you and me to have
life, family and friends;
and the soon-to-come
millennium in which we hope
to be graced by God to be
born again into the Divine
family of God, it is also
designed to keep our minds
on our relationship with God
and filled with that expectation.
To
make this plain to us, God
led a major prophet to write
of the problems of many and
the blessings that will come
by observing it in the
manner in which God makes
clear in the following
Scriptures:
"If
you turn away your foot from
the Sabbath, from doing your
pleasure on My Holy day, and
call the Sabbath a delight,
the Holy Day of the LORD
honorable; and shall honor
Him, not doing your own
ways, nor finding your won
pleasure, nor speaking your
own words, then you shall
delight yourself in the
LORD; and I will cause you
to ride on the high hills of
the earth, and feed you with
the heritage of Jacob your
father. The mouth of
the LORD has spoken"
(Isaiah 58:13-14).
And
please remember at the same
time, it is 'THE SIGN' that
makes known we are the
people of God! Though
I could turn to Exodus 31 to
remind us of this Scripture,
I prefer to use another
Scripture that is in a
prophetic Book for this
time, today!, which mean you
and me:
"I
am the LORD your God: walk
in My statutes, keep My
statutes, keep My judgments,
and do them. Hallow My
Sabbaths, and they will be A
SIGN between Me and you,
that you may known that I am
the LORD your God"
(Ezekiel 20:19-20).
All
of us should be able to see without
the knowledge and observance
of God's Sabbath we would be
worse off than the world.
Though they will experience
horrible sufferings very
soon, they will in time to
come have the Spiritual
darkness removed from their
eyes and will then have the
same opportunity that we now
are having at this time.
We
dare not fail! There
will be no further
opportunity for us!
Today is our day of
salvation and no other!
Though
all of you know these
things, I feel it well and
good that we be reminded of
the vital importance of the
7th day of each and every
week which presents a weekly
opportunity to come before
our God with worship,
praise, and thanksgiving for
His Holy Sabbath.
May
our good and wonderful God
bless all of us and His
people worldwide with a
happy, joyous, and
profitable Sabbath, and all
the Sabbaths yet in front of
us.
A
fellow-worshiper of our God
and His beloved Son, Jesus
Christ,
Don
Billingsley
