Thank you, Kathy, for your encouragement! I hope it is helpful!

Mila, he does not fully explain how to observe the Sabbath in those verses. If you would read them carefully again, you would see they are too ambiguous to make such a claim. It does not say WHICH day the Sabbath should be celebrated. Only that every seven days you take a Sabbath rest day. Neither does it explain what constitutes “work.” Is doing the dishes work? Is shoveling work? Or is only doing the job you get paid for work? What about working on a creative project? Is that work? These issues are not so black and white as you think. The Jews had a very difficult time discussing amongst themselves how to live out verses 8-11. Look at their history of Sabbath rituals and you will see why. Of course, the verses in Exodus are the core, the beginning, but they do not define everything, and all the Jews knew it. Jesus and the apostles knew it. This is why they argued about it. Are you above the apostles? Are you more trained than the Pharisees, in the law? Certainly you have not studied like they studied (and neither have I, even though I study diligently), so we are not above these same issues. We all must consider how we can best live those verses out. To do that, we need the wisdom of the Spirit, and an attitude of willingness to consider these issues. That is what this post is about. We need to think seriously about theses issues, and if your intent is to stimulate honest thought and encourage, then thank you for your comment.

God created the Sabbath. It is written in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1:17). In verses 8-11 He explain how to observe the Sabbath.

Ed, this is an example of the Pharisaical thinking that Jesus rebuked. “Man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for man.” A pastor can’t have his Sabbath rest on Sunday. Nor can the pastor whose service is on Saturday have a Sabbath rest on Saturday. The traditional Sabbath was Saturday, not Sunday. Yet modern Evangelicals say it’s Sunday. Who decides what day it is? Surely, according to how important you hold the Scriptures to be, you are not the one deciding which day it is. So, where did you find in Scripture which day the Sabbath needs to be? And what do you do with Jesus’ rejection of the strict legalistic application of the Sabbath? Or the words of the disciples after Jesus’ resurrection, when they spoke of what elements of the law the new Christian gentiles should keep? Some responsibilities outweigh other responsibilities, in the same way that Jesus healed on the Sabbath. The point of the Sabbath is that it is a gift we should embrace by faith, through love. Do you think it makes you more spiritual to embrace the day you think God intended for the Sabbath? That attitude is rooted in pride, not the Spirit of Christ. I am encouraging myself and others to embrace a weekly Sabbath rest. My conscience is clear.