Keys to Better Living: Keeping the Sabbath Day | Exodus 20:8-11

Keys To Better Living

Keeping the Sabbath Day

Exodus 20:8-11

“Our patterns of work and rest reveal what we believe to be true about God and ourselves. God alone requires no limits on his activity. To rest is to acknowledge that we humans are limited by design. We are created for rest just as surely as we are created for labor. An inability or unwillingness to cease from our labors is a confession of unbelief, an admission that we view ourselves as creator and sustainer of our own universes (pp. 64-65).”

― Jen Wilkin, Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands

Scripture: ⁸ “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹ Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. ¹¹ For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:8-11

1. What did this mean for them?
   1. The Sabbath was Israel’s reminder of their as God’s creation.

2. What does this mean for us?
   1. The Sabbath is our reminder to our relationship with God.

3. How does it change how we live?
   1. We are to the promise of Jesus as our true Sabbath rest.

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

Next Steps

Today, I will commit to making a Sabbath Rest part of my routine.

Today, I will find my eternal rest in Jesus.

Read for Next Week: Exodus 20:13