Counsel #6 — Rest From What?

Picture: Counsel #6 — Rest From What?CWe 142.1

Jesus reserves some of His best promises for those who make God the center of their thoughts, words, and even conversation on His holy day. The Sabbath is not a day for buying, selling, farm or housework, competitive sports, business transactions or week-day work routines. Rather, it is a day to center our minds on God and His amazing love and power, purposefully cultivating our relationship with Him in joyful celebration.^{[152]https://www.sabbathtruth.com/faq/advanced-topics/rest-in-god-keeping-the-sabbath-holy}CWe 142.2

“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 own 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….” Isaiah 58:13, 14 NKJVCWe 142.3

“God has given us the whole of six days in which to do our work, and has reserved only one to Himself. This should be a day of blessing to us—a day when we should lay aside all our secular matters and center our thoughts upon God and heaven.” Ellen White in Child Guidance, p. 529CWe 142.4

Reflect: Have you become careless in your observance of God’s Sabbath? In what areas is God calling you to honor more fully the sanctity of the Sabbath and thereby come into deeper relationship with Jesus? CWe 142.5