Different Life: 3rd CommandmentSample

The Sabbath is a sign that God wants to give us rest. Ultimate rest. We’re not talking about dying here. No. We’re talking about the fullness, beauty, and wonder of life lived in the glory of God and enjoying his presence forever. The Westminster Catechism will go so far as to call this the chief and highest end of man. The Old Testament Sabbath was a hint of that. Jesus comes to bring it fully. Jesus is our Sabbath rest.

So much of Sabbath practice throughout history fixated on what we weren’t supposed to do. But the true picture of Sabbath is of what we can do – enjoy God and his creation and the way of life he always intended life to be. It’s an invitation to live life as though we’re in the promised land as if God’s new creation has already come.

As Christians, we have a unique opportunity to live sabbaths in Jesus, who is our great Sabbath. And our Sabbath life serves as a sign of the life Jesus offers to those still in bondage and slavery. Jesus’s invitation to a Sabbath rest is for everyone.

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