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SABBATH SONG
THURSDAY, APRIL 4
Psalm 92:1-15
Acts 20:6-7
 
“… The sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the sabbath.”
 
SABBATH SONG
 
The title of this Psalm is thus abbreviated. Sabbath is a Hebrew word which means “rest.” This rest is commanded in the Fourth Commandment. 
 
This rest from servile labour is holy not only to rest our tired bodies but also to commemorate what the Lord God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, has done to bring us into being. The creation process is completed, and shall be commemorated.
 
With the completion of God’s redemptive work in saving us from death to life by our Lord Jesus Christ through His resurrection from the dead, the Day of Rest which falls on the seventh day (Saturday) is since the day of the Apostles incorporated into the Lord’s Day (Sunday). (Read John 20:19-20; Acts 20:6-7; 1 Cor 16:1-2; Rev 1:10).
 
How shall we spend Sunday (or what we now call the Lord’s Day or the Christian Sabbath)? According to the injunction of this Psalm we should spend it in:
1. worship, with thanksgiving and praise; and
2. meditation on the works of God and His justice in the government of men, both good and bad. This is activated through instruction. Hence the preaching of God’s Word is the second part of worship, after praise and thanksgiving through prayer.
 
The above two components of hallowing the Lord’s Sabbath are to be found not privately or individually but corporately, in public worship by the whole Church family. So, Hebrews 10:25 exhorts us: “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”
 
THOUGHT: (Read Psalm 92:1.)
PRAYER: Help me, Father, to keep Thy Day holy.

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