Honor The Sabbath
We see in the Third Commandment a very basic understanding of the relationship between God and humanity. The Hebrew's said that on the seventh day, the Sabbath, they would rest. Everything would stop. "This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice in God and be glad," sings the psalmist.
The Lord says, "I have to teach these people that I'm their power, that I'm their lover, and that I'm their life. So just one day a week, a seventh of your time, stop proving yourselves, stop achieving, stop accomplishing, Stop doing anything that is task oriented. Let me do the saving, the loving, the liberating."
That was the meaning of the sabbath rest: to wait upon the Lord, to rest in the Lord. And in order to allow the Lord to prove himself, they would not sow their fields every seventh year.
We find out that it is not we who are doing the loving.
Someone is loving through us.
Someone is loving through us.
Radical Grace, Daily Meditations, by Richard Rohr, pp.72
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