Keeping Your Feet From Doing As You Please on My Holy Day

“If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.” Isa 58:13–14

The Sabbath is a day of blessing—a sacred time to worship God in reverence and to grant rest to our weary souls. It is a day to reflect on the truth, to share in the grace-filled fragrance of Zion with our spiritual brothers and sisters, and to deepen our hope for the kingdom of heaven. There were moments, however, when I forgot that the Sabbath is God’s holy day. I am humbled to admit that I did not always keep the hours between services with the reverence they were due.

Now, I will seek the true joy of the Sabbath in the Lord by honoring His command to turn from my own pleasures and to keep my lips from idle speech.