FROM TODAY'S READING (12/2/2013)...
"It is a day [Sabbath] on which we are called upon to show what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the creation of the world to the world of creation."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel (Jewish theologian)
Isaiah 58:13-14 (NLT) “Keep the Sabbath day holy. Don’t pursue your own interests on that day, but enjoy the Sabbath and speak of it with delight as the Lord ’s holy day. Honor the Sabbath in everything you do on that day, and don’t follow your own desires or talk idly. Then the Lord will be your delight. I will give you great honor and satisfy you with the inheritance I promised to your ancestor Jacob. I, the Lord, have spoken!”
Psalm 122:1 (NLT) "I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”
Hebrews 10:23-25 (NLT) Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
