The Most Important Days

The Most Important Days

January 24

Read:  Exodus 31:12 - 18

On the first day of the week… they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. – Luke 24:1 - 2

The Bible In One year

Exodus 28 - 31

This is the time of year when I go on “the hunt” – not for after holiday deal on decorations but for the perfect calendar. I start looking in December, but I don’te get serious about my search until January. My requirements are simple: I want to a week – at – aglace, book – type calendar that will lie open on the counter near the telephone.  It must also begin each week with Sunday, not Monday. It’s this last criterion that complicates my search. More and more calendars start the week with Monday, the day God considers second.

This trend, like others in our culture, gives the least prominence to what God considers most important. He chose to give special significance to 2 days of the week, the first and the last,. He rested on the seventh day after crating the world(Gen. 2:1 – 3), and on the first day Christ rose from the dead after redeeming the world (Luke 24:1 – 7), Under the Old Covenant, the last day was reserved for rest. Today, under the New Covenant, believes celebrate the first day of the week in remembrance of Christ’s resurrection.

Although the calendar I use is not crucial to my faith, it does help me remember that my life begins and ends not with the work I do for myself but with the work God does fro me as I worship and rest. – Julie Ackerman Link

Thinking it Over

Do I make time in my schedule for worship and rest?

How can worship transform my thinking and living?

How can rest help me to see God and life more clearly?

Time spend with the Lord is time well spent.