Sabbath...

Friday is my "Sabbath," my day of rest.  It has been for several years, but to be honest for the most part it has been my Sabbath in name only.  I fully believe in the concept of Sabbath--since it was given to us by God and is one of the Ten Commandments.  Jesus started each day with a Sabbath--a time or withdrawing from the world and communing with His Heavenly Father.  I call it a Sabbath, because it was more than just a prayer time that He checked off His to do list.  Mark 1:35 ff, makes it clear that Jesus got up in the morning--long before daybreak to pray.  This was Jesus' time to "rest" in His Heavenly Father.  As you read the text you find that soon the disciples would come looking for Him, and when they found Him they would pull Jesus to go back and "follow up" on the great day of ministry of the day before.  Jesus didn't go with the disciples' plan.  He had another plan--a plan to do what His Heavenly Father sent Him to do.  What I learn from that--or should say what I am LEARNING from that is I, too, must start each day, and take a day each week when I separate myself from the world, even from my family and the church family to communie with God, to rest in Him.  That way when others present plans that seem good, I'll know God's plan, which is always best.  Why am I writing this on my Sabbath?  Because I want you to know how important Sabbath is, and I ask that you will pray for me to honor a daily and weekly time of Sabbath with the Lord, that I may be all He calls me to be in 2008!