God's Sabbath

C HAPTER 31

The Sabbath Blessing E very true believer will want to know what procedures to fol low in order to realize the fullness of God’s purpose through the Sabbath in his or her life. So how can the Sabbath day be come all that God intended it to be for you and me?

ASense of Need

In the first place, we never reach out for God’s promised bless ings until we have a sense of need them. Self-sufficiency is one of the most serious barriers to entering into Sabbath rest. We therefore need to plead for the Holy Spirit to awaken in us a re al sense of our personal need. Are we aware of our imminent and continual danger of forgetting who our Source is, and of attrib uting to ourselves the glory which belongs to our Maker? Under the guidance of our heavenly Teacher, the Scriptures need to be studied daily with the specific purpose of seeing how prone we are to forsaking God’s ways and following our own. We should also consider the fearful outworking of forgetting God and substituting our plans and procedures in place of His. We can never relax our guard and imagine that we are no longer in danger of turning to our own ways.

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