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Exodus 23.12
“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.”
Exodus 35.2, 3
2 “Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. 3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
We must not be a cause of others having to work on the Lord’s Day. Even if they are servants or aliens to God’s covenant, the way we keep the Lord’s Day must not encumber them with work. They need rest as well, and, while unbelievers typically feel no compunction about breaking the Lord’s Day, this does not free us to participate in their disobedience.
No work is so urgent – save those of necessity and mercy – that it may be allowed to corrupt the one day God has set aside to Himself. Imagine the powerful witness to a befuddled world if the followers of Christ could begin to practice the Lord’s Day as God intends!
T. M. Moore
The Law of God is the soil which, fertilized by the rest of God’s Word and watered by His Spirit, brings forth the fruit of Christian life. If you’d like to understand this process better, and how to make best use of the Law in your walk with and work for the Lord, order the book, The Ground for Christian Ethics, from our online store.
Except as indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version. © Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.