Aug 12, 2025 … Refilling The Tank ...

Aug 12, 2025 … Refilling The Tank ... 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   … Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Peter Neville singing … Holy Time,  … about we Christians honoring the holy time of peace and restoration found in honoring God on the Sabbath Day.

Highlight Passage: … Exodus 20:10 … [NLT] … 

10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God. On that day no one in your household may do any work. …   

… God establishes the Sabbath for His people to rest and restore their souls.    

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … Exodus 20:1, 8-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s commands conning the Sabbath, … a day of the week set aside for God to rest and restore the souls of His chosen people.            

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Reference Passage: … Leviticus 23:3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God repeats His command to keep one day a week to rest for the work He has for us to do.

Reference Passage: …  Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Solomon’s teaching, calls His children to trust and follow His instructions.  

Passage: … Isaiah 58:13-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Isaiah, repeats the Lord’s instruction concerning the Sabbath Day.

Reference Passage: … Mark 2:27-28 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches the Religious Leaders and His followers that He is the Lord of the Sabbath.  When we keep the Sabbath, we honor Him.    

Reference Passage: … Luke 4:16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… It was Jesus’ habit to go to the Synagogue on the Sabbath to honor and worship His Father.  

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 4:9-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The importance of God’s instructions for the Sabbath day to all of God’s people are repeated by the Author of Hebrews. 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author,  Adam R Holz … AT THIS LINK          … tells about the “DTE” (Distance Til Empty) indicator on all cars which provides gas consumption on the vehicle.  The device is installed to allow the car owner or driver to avoid running our of gas while driving and being stranded on the road.  And the ODB author uses that device to illustrate God’s “DTE,” in Exodus 20, where The Lord commands His people to keep the seventh day (i.e.,The Sabbath) of each week as a time to rest and refill the soul for the road of work ahead in life. 

It’s pretty easy to ignore God’s “DTE,” isn’t it?  In our human nature, we too often think we have more in the tank than God knows we do.   And we forget that God wants us to devote a time to rest and restore what He gives us to do the work we’re called to do for His glory.  Personally I relish using the Sabbath for my “R&R.”  How about you?     

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for giving me Your Sabbath time to restore my soul. 

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again Lord. …to allow a special time to stop and refill our tanks for the road ahead. .  … Amen

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