The Choice Is Ours – The Fourth Commandment

The Choice Is Ours

Exodus 20:8

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

God has appointed the Lord’s Day as one of holy convocation and rest in Him. We can choose to submit to His purpose for the Lord’s Day, or we can disobey Him and do with it whatever we prefer.

But we cannot expect to gain the benefit God intends for us by keeping this day holy if we, instead, treat it as a “free” day to whatever we please. Test God on this, and see if He won’t bless you in surprising ways.

Keeping the Sabbath is not something most believers have been good at over the years. Do we believe that the Lord knows best how we ought to live and what we need in order to know the full and abundant life for which He has redeemed us?

We need to trust the Lord on this, as with all the rest of His Law. We can either begin to draw closer to the Lord through obedient faith, or we can continue to bottle up the life of hope, peace, joy, and power He wants us to have by pursuing a course of disobedience.

The choice is ours.

Daily meditation in the Law of God helps us along the path of holiness, righteousness, and goodness (Rom. 7:12). Order your copy of The Law of God, a compilation of the Mosaic Law for contemporary believers, by going to www.MyParuchia.com, point your browser to “Publications,” then click on the drop-down option, “Waxed Tablet Publications.”

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore.

T.M. Moore is editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Editor’s note: The use of a translation other than the Authorised Version in an article does not constitute an endorsement in whole or in part by The Christian Observer.