FRIENDSHIP DAY IN THE UNIVERSE
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six day the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Ex. 20:8-11, N.I.V.
You're sitting in your favorite chair in the front room. The phone rings. As the voice on the other end begins you sit bolt upright in your seat. "Who?" you ask.
"This is the president of the United States! I would like very much for us to get together!" Flabbergasted, you reply, "Uh, that would be great! Uh..." Your mind races. A trip to Washington! It'll be an experience of a lifetime! Something you'll tell your grandchildren! But what's that he's saying? Once a week! "You see, I'd like for us to become friends! That's why I think we should spend at least a whole day together each week. I'll fly out each Friday evening..."
Hard to imagine? I mean, why in the world would the president want to spend time with just an everyday person? Let alone a whole day out of each week! And yet that is exactly what the God of the universe has done! He has set apart--made holy--the seventh day of each week and invited us to spend the day with Him! And He gives the reason why He's interested in us: He's our Creator!
God did not create mankind so that He could be some sort of divine zookeeper! He made us in His image so that He might share His life with us. He gave us minds that can grow and dream and participate in the excitement of this wonderful universe. He shared with us a portion of His uniqueness and individuality so that our inventiveness would enhance life and make His own heart glad and refreshed. His desire is that we should find friendship with Him so delightful that we begin to soar, and that our capacity to communicate with Him might continue to develop until we can enter into such provocative interchange with Him that He Himself is stimulated. And it all begins with Sabbath communion.
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six day the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Ex. 20:8-11, N.I.V.
You're sitting in your favorite chair in the front room. The phone rings. As the voice on the other end begins you sit bolt upright in your seat. "Who?" you ask.
"This is the president of the United States! I would like very much for us to get together!" Flabbergasted, you reply, "Uh, that would be great! Uh..." Your mind races. A trip to Washington! It'll be an experience of a lifetime! Something you'll tell your grandchildren! But what's that he's saying? Once a week! "You see, I'd like for us to become friends! That's why I think we should spend at least a whole day together each week. I'll fly out each Friday evening..."
Hard to imagine? I mean, why in the world would the president want to spend time with just an everyday person? Let alone a whole day out of each week! And yet that is exactly what the God of the universe has done! He has set apart--made holy--the seventh day of each week and invited us to spend the day with Him! And He gives the reason why He's interested in us: He's our Creator!
God did not create mankind so that He could be some sort of divine zookeeper! He made us in His image so that He might share His life with us. He gave us minds that can grow and dream and participate in the excitement of this wonderful universe. He shared with us a portion of His uniqueness and individuality so that our inventiveness would enhance life and make His own heart glad and refreshed. His desire is that we should find friendship with Him so delightful that we begin to soar, and that our capacity to communicate with Him might continue to develop until we can enter into such provocative interchange with Him that He Himself is stimulated. And it all begins with Sabbath communion.
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