Rule For Life

“LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup;
you have made my lot secure.

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.”

“I will praise the LORD, who counsels me;
even at night my heart instructs me.”

“I have set the Lord always before me.
Because he is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.”

“Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest secure.”

“you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.”

Living with Contradiction by Esther de Wall

The Rule of St. Benedict

Soul Feast by Marjorie Thompson

“Sabbath is not dependent upon our readiness to stop. We do not stop when we are finished. We do not stop when we complete our phone calls, finish our project, get through this stack of messages, or get out this report that is due tomorrow. We stop because it is time to stop.” —Wayne Muller

DESIRE

to set apart one day a week for rest and worship of God

DEFINITION

Sabbath is God’s gift of repetitive and regular rest. It is given for our delight and communion with God. Time for being in the midst of a life of doing particularly characterizes the sabbath.

SCRIPTURE

“Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. . . .

There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest.” (Hebrews 4:1, 9-11)

“The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” (Mark 2:27)

“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God.” (Exodus 20:8-10)

PRACTICE INCLUDES

GOD-GIVEN FRUIT