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Sanctified for Worship, January 29
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the
Lord.
Psalm 122:1
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God has given us the whole of six days in which to do our work, and
has reserved only one to Himself. This should be a day of blessing to
us—a day when we should lay aside all our secular matters and center
our thoughts upon God and heaven.
All heaven is keeping the Sabbath, but not in a listless, do-nothing
way. On this day every energy of the soul should be awake, for are we
not to meet with God and with Christ our Saviour? We may behold Him
by faith. He is longing to refresh and bless every soul.
On Sabbath morning the family should be astir early. If they rise
late, there is confusion and bustle in preparing for breakfast and Sab-
bath school. There is hurrying, jostling, and impatience. Thus unholy
feelings come into the home. The Sabbath, thus desecrated, becomes a
weariness, and its coming is dreaded rather than loved.
The Sabbath is God’s time. He sanctified and hallowed the seventh
day. He set it apart for man to keep as a day of worship.
We need to cherish and cultivate a spirit of true worship, a spirit
of devotion upon the Lord’s holy, sanctified day. We should assemble
together believing that we shall receive comfort and hope, light and
peace from Jesus Christ.
All heaven was represented to me as beholding and watching upon
the Sabbath those who acknowledge the claims of the fourth command-
ment and are observing the Sabbath. Angels were marking their interest
in, and high regard for, this divine institution. Those who sanctified the
Lord God in their hearts by a strictly devotional frame of mind, and who
sought to improve the sacred hours in keeping the Sabbath to the best of
their ability, and to honor God by calling the Sabbath a delight—these
the angels were specially blessing with light and health, and special
strength was given them.
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