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50 “Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest,”

 Exodus 23:12

 It seems fashionable in these modern days to treat the day set apart for God as any other day. The justification for it is the scripture that we are not under law but under grace. This is a false application of this divine truth. We are to work six days and receive our money and on the seventh day to rest and set it apart for God and the service of His kingdom. God promises rich blessing to all those who honour His day and set it apart from the other days of the week.

 We are to work and fill our lives with activity and service and then rest on the day for God. It is good to obey the Lord and make the Lord’s day a separate and special day so that we can focus on Him and worship and serve Him. It is a glory to His name and shows we are conscious of His presence and bidding. Let us not please ourselves and make it a holiday for fun, but set it aside to meet with God and worship Him in His holy house. We should not do the things that we normally do on a weekday, but seek to make the day for God special and sacrosanct.

“God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.”

 Genesis 2:3

 Here at the beginning of creation, we have the mandate for making the day for God a day of rest from our usual activities and focusing on our Saviour and Lord.