With so much going on in the world, we all need to get right with God.

We need to develop a steadfast relationship with God, an unbreakable Unshakeable relationship.

Many are worried about Russia's outright invasion of Ukraine. We as Christians should pray for peace on behalf of the Ukrainian people (1 Timothy 2:1–2; Romans 12:1) also for Russia as well.

 

 

To develop a close relationship with God, we need to spend quality time with Him. We need to study His Word and let His Holy Spirit speak to us through it. We require time to spend in earnest prayer, talking to Him, praising and worshiping Him. We need time to look at nature and reflect on all the beautiful creations He has made. And finally, we need time to spend with fellow believers, worship together in song, and have fellowship with each other, encouraging one another and building up each other's faith by our testimonies.

 

In this hectic world with our busy lifestyles, it is so easy to get so engrossed in other things that we never have time for God. Some of us may spend a couple of hours of a Sunday morning attending church. Still, then the humdrum of the rat race catches up with us, and we find ourselves mowing lawns, going to the footy, or off doing other secular activities where God is not a part of it.

 

With stress-related diseases such as heart attack and cancer increasing every year, the necessity to take a day's break and bask in the presence of our mighty father in Heaven has never been so vital. We need to be replenished and rested so that our bodies have time to recuperate.

 

God gave us His Sabbath day as a blessing to all humankind. A day that we could genuinely get to know and fellowship with Him and not have to do any work or labor. A day on which to rest, away from the worries and cares of this world. He also ordained it as a day in remembrance that He is the Creator of Heaven and Earth. The scriptures say Exodus 20:8-11 New International Version

8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

 

The Bible shows the true spirit of the Sabbath. Isaiah 58:13-14 New International Version

13 “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day,

if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,

14 then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

This is a verse that all of us should consider Joshua 24:15 New International Version

15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

All Bible references are from the New International Version