Gods Sabbath

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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

Sabbath day. It includes understanding and accepting that God reveals only what is for our best good at the right time. We also need to recognize and accept the channels through whom God is shedding His light and learn from these appointed messengers of the Lord. The attention should be focused on the lessons as they are being unfolded, no matter how many unresolved ques tions may arise. We must leave those difficulties with the mas ter Educator. He is fully aware of them and has already planned to deal with them at the right time. This is the only safe course to pursue. History shows that those who concentrate on under standing what God has already revealed will be ready for the next lesson when He gives it. During His earthly mission, Christ was a model Follower of God’s ways. He was quite content to have His Father reveal each day’s responsibilities as that day arrived. He was not troubled because His future was not opened to His immediate view. As a result, He was not burdened with a restless spirit, which knowl edge of the future would have brought. He walked safely in God’s ways, step by step, without demanding that the future be revealed to Him before moving forward. While He was a man, Christ was limited by the same restric tions as we are. During the final days before His crucifixion Christ knew from the Scriptures that He would rise again, and He repeatedly told this to His disciples. (See Mark 8:31; Luke 18:33.) But in His desperate struggle at Gethsemane and Calva ry, when all appearances witnessed to the contrary, He was not able to look through the portals of the grave. At that time, His prayer was: “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” Matthew 26:39. “Christ could not see through the portals of the tomb. Bright hope did not present to Him his coming forth from the grave a triumphant conqueror, or tell Him of the Father’s acceptance of his sacrifice. All He could realize during this time of amazing darkness was the heinousness of sin that was laid upon Him, and the horror of its penalty, death. He feared that sin was so of Christ’s Submission