Sabbath
A twenty-four hour time period set aside weekly to stop, rest, delight, and worship.
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1. Stop
2. Rest
3. Delight
4. Worship
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Stopping long enough brings us face to face with two areas of our lives that can quickly make us feel uncomfortable: our identity and our idolatry.
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Colossians 3:12-17
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
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Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
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“The world says, “Make yourself more. Give us more.” God says, “You are enough. I want to spend time with you.”
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Idolatry
Anything we put in front of God.
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Lynne Baab, Sabbath Keeping
“Most importantly, keeping a Sabbath week after week and year after year inscribes on our hearts that we are finite creatures of a infinite God and that the universe, our work, our families, everything we feel responsible for, belong to God. God is God and we are not. We desperately need to know this truth deep inside our hearts, and the Sabbath helps to put it there.”
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“STOP” Sabbath Practices
1. Pick your day to practice Sabbath.
2. Bookend your Sabbath.
3. Identify what you will stop doing.
