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Today we will take a look at another interesting Biblical passage where God seems to emphasize the importance of the Sabbath. Isaiah 58: 13-14 says:

If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day
of the Lord honorable , and shall honor Him,
not doing your own ways, nor finding your
own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,
then you shall delight yourself in the Lord;
and I will cause you to ride on the high hills
of the earth, and feed you with the heritage
of Jacob your father. The mouth of the Lord
has spoken.

This passage strikes me as extraordinary for two reasons; (1) because the Lord is taking only one commandment out of the list of ten, and He is stressing to us how important it is. (2) The Lord is attaching a promise to those who keep this particular commandment. And it is not just any small promise. It is an awesome promise. He tells us that he "will cause us to ride on the high hills of the earth" and He will "feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father." What a beautiful promise that is!! I don't know about you, but I would love to ride on the high hills of the earth and to partake of the heritage of Jacob.

Well, now the question for all of us is this: Why do we choose to forfeit this promise????
Why do so many people choose not to observe the Sabbath? Does the Bible offer any similar blessings to those who observe Sunday instead of Sabbath?

If you observe Sunday instead of Saturday, I invite you to share your reasons for doing so.
Is it because of tradition? Is it based on a passage from Scriptures?

God bless you,

The moderator