God's Sabbath

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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

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As we grow in our understanding of divine order, we will ap preciate the fact more and more that one thing Omnipotence cannot do, is to make us self-sustaining. This is a position which only God can occupy, by virtue of the fact that He needed no one else to give Him an origin. He is from everlasting to everlasting and none can take His place. These are principles we must never allow ourselves to forget. In order to guarantee this, we must understand our danger, and appreciate the blessed provision of the Sabbath as the divine remedy for the situation. God has built tremendous blessings and riches into the Sabbath. It is for His children to obtain from this institution what He has put into it. It is not to be seen as a day of prohibitions, a period of time to be endured until the setting sun once more heralds the begin ning of another week of busy and profitable activity. Only those who have never truly seen God’s wonderful purpose in His gift of the Sabbath ask the question, “What things must I be careful not to do on this day?” Those who are aware of the fellowship and education the Lord provides through this beautiful institu tion, find themselves eagerly looking forward to another weekly feast of good things. They call the Sabbath a delight, not because they are admonished to do so, but because that is what they have found it to be. “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the ho ly day of the L ORD 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 L ORD ; 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 L ORD has spoken.” Isaiah 58:13, 14 (NKJV).