The Rhythm of Life

Figuring out what to do with the Sabbath is not something with which the secular culture is concerned.  It is only a concern for those who regard the Scripture as a sacred Word that has bearing on the way we live.  Certainly no one thinks that God is going to bring terrible things upon someone who disregards His admonition to rest on the seventh day as the Creation story tells us He did when He brought all things into being.  Keeping the Sabbath holy is interpreted in so many different ways that anyone has a license to do anything. 

 

At a deeper level than the things we do or do not do is where the harm to the soul is done.  The Creation speaks of a rhythm to life.  The changing seasons, the change from day to darkness, the pull of the moon on the tides, and the life we humans live from within the womb to the grave all speak of an ongoing rhythm.  When we disregard the Word about Sabbath, we choose to move outside of the rhythm for living that God ordained for us from the very beginning.  While some might say the fears, worries, and stresses of life come from the external pressures all around us, is it not also possible that they come from within because we choose to live our lives out of sync with the rest of creation.?

 

A basic understanding of sin is that it represents us finding a way better than the way of God.  And, once we find that better way, we choose it.  Such choosing is our undoing.  Whatever it is that puts us outside the intentions of God results in a brokenness we cannot fix.  We can call it by any word that sounds sophisticated, but the Word simply uses the term sin.  From the very beginning God ordained not just the best way for us to live, but the only way for us to live.  To ignore that Word is something which only dimishes our living.  To walk and live in step with the Created order is far more important than it might seem on the surface.  It is not just a matter of a body in need of rest, but of a soul in need of its Creator.