Day: January 17, 2016

Strive for Improvement

There's always room for improvement.

The Last Judgment

It does, in fact, end in a whimper – but not for us.

Psalm 119:21

You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments. Lord, forgive me for I am often one of those insolent ones, wandering away from Your righteous Law. Sometimes through thoughtlessness but more often through willful disobedience. Lord, discipline me and teach me that I might become more fully a man of God. Today's […]

Remember the Sabbath (2)

The Fourth Commandment: Statutes and Precepts (4)

Exodus 31.12-17

¹² And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ¹³ “Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. ¹⁴ You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. ¹⁵ Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. ¹⁶ Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. ¹⁷ It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”