Two months ago, I walked away from a job I had had for over 14 and 1/2 years to a job of seemingly lesser status. But having been confined in a shop environment with the same 4 people day in and day out made me realize that I could not share my faith with others accept those with whom I may chance upon by providence or those with whom I come into unison on the Sabbath at church.
You said a lot. But it is the truth as it has been divined (hopefully) by the Holy Spirit to you. God's Word is so infinitely powerful. The Word can open up to a person as easily as reading line by line, but there are also deeper and deeper meanings laying in the scriptures. I think each person has to decide for themselves.
This is something I wanted to share with someone else....
From the (April-May-June) quarterly:
A Jewish cantor (worship leader) and his wife who lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, began receiving threatening and obscene phone calls. They discovered the calls came from a leader of an American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Knowing his identity, they could have turned him in to the police. But they decided on a more radical approach. When they learned that he was crippled, they showed up at his door with dinner! He was utterly flabbergasted. His hatred melted before their love. The couple kept visiting him, and the friendship grew. He even thought of becoming Jewish!
Did someone bother to tell the person who questioned the day of the Sabbath, Jesus was Jewish and kept the law according to the Jewish calendar? What day do the Jewish people to this day still honor as the Sabbath? The catholic church changed the day from saturday to sunday.
However, that being said, I believe the true key to keeping the Sabbath is in Romans, chapters 7 and 8.
Not perfect, but always hoping,
Mike |
