As I was studying Matt. 12 today, the Lord showed me some things on several different subjects...the first being the Sabbath rest. The chapter begins with the Pharisees criticizing Jesus and His disciples for picking heads of grain on the Sabbath, and later on accusing Jesus of breaking the Sabbath because He healed someone.
Jesus, as God manifested in flesh, was the Lord of the Sabbath. He reached out with God's love to a lost and dying world. Jesus didn't violate the Sabbath law because love isn't work for God, it's Who He is! Therefore, it's not work for God to heal, deliver, or provide for any other need that presents itself...no matter what day it is. These are ways that God demonstrates His love and compassion for us. He does it for His pleasure and for His glory.
We are told to labor to enter into God's rest. The Sabbath rest is about our trusting God, our Provider, in all things and for all things. Providing food when we're hungry and healing for our body are just two of the ways He provides for us. He uses His people as vessels through which He expresses His love. Obeying God whenever He chooses to use you to bless someone is not sin; nor is receiving God's love for us on any given day sin, whether it's food we're receiving or healing.
What makes the Sabbath a perpetual state of being is that God loves us all of the time, every moment of every day. Every day that we trust in His love and wait in earnest anticipation for that love to manifest...whether it be for a spiritual, soulical, or physical need...we are entering into the Sabbath rest.
Jesus, as God manifested in flesh, was the Lord of the Sabbath. He reached out with God's love to a lost and dying world. Jesus didn't violate the Sabbath law because love isn't work for God, it's Who He is! Therefore, it's not work for God to heal, deliver, or provide for any other need that presents itself...no matter what day it is. These are ways that God demonstrates His love and compassion for us. He does it for His pleasure and for His glory.
We are told to labor to enter into God's rest. The Sabbath rest is about our trusting God, our Provider, in all things and for all things. Providing food when we're hungry and healing for our body are just two of the ways He provides for us. He uses His people as vessels through which He expresses His love. Obeying God whenever He chooses to use you to bless someone is not sin; nor is receiving God's love for us on any given day sin, whether it's food we're receiving or healing.
What makes the Sabbath a perpetual state of being is that God loves us all of the time, every moment of every day. Every day that we trust in His love and wait in earnest anticipation for that love to manifest...whether it be for a spiritual, soulical, or physical need...we are entering into the Sabbath rest.
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