If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: (Isaiah 58:13)
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God… For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. (Isaiah 84:2,10)
Psalm 92 A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. 1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night (Psalm 92:1-2)
The way we keep the Sabbath should make it the day we look forward to all week. That's not to say we should find our own pleasure on God's holy day, but we should spend the day in the kind of tranquil communion with God that we will long for much more than mere pleasure. The Sabbath is a day to praise God, to rejoice in the things he has done, as Psalm 92 shows. But this psalm also shows that we should be praising God daily.
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