A lot of people see the Lord’s Day as an infringement of their personal liberty—a day that is taken away from them… On the Lord’s Day we rest from our normal activities for the purpose of catching our physical, emotional, and spiritual breath – free from the ordinary demands of work—we worship our extraordinary God – Isaiah 58:13-14… God gives us the prescription for finding rest in this restless world—a Day off!
‘Our culture is nothing if not over-busy and stressed-out. You don’t have to look very hard to discover that our society’s relationship to time is a complete mess. The most rudimentary teaching from the Scriptures on how human beings should relate to time (and to God) is called the Sabbath… (The) Sabbath isn’t the cessation of work, so much as it is the cessation of restlessness. For one day a week we stop our ceaseless working, generating, producing, consuming, worrying, hurrying, and so on, in order to just enjoy the day (and our God).’