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Prayer

O my Lord, how desperately I need you. My soul is a desert, and you alone the fount and spring of water. Thorns and thistles I have gotten for myself, a ruin and a desolation. O Lord, pour out your Spirit and fill my barren soul with life. Meet me in the wilderness at the hill of calvary. Make me to live again, Lord. I am weary and sick with sin, wash me anew again, forgive me Lord. Restore me, Lord. Kiss me with the kisses of your mouth. All my hope is in you. I have no other place to go, no other hope. Please forgive me for whoring myself after earthly joys and delights. Please wash me and make me clean, renew a steadfast spirit within me. Save me Lord, I am yours. In Jesus’ precious name I pray, Amen.

Reading

Psalm 92.

“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.”

Meditation

I wonder if you are feeling weary? I wonder if there are trials in your life? I wonder if your soul is dry, and your feet are sore and dusty from your wilderness wonderings? It is time to rest. It is time to worship. In Luke 4:8 Jesus said: ““It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”” As we’ve considered the seventh day, this is very much in keeping with the theme of worship. I wonder if your Lord’s Day worship is full of delight in the Lord? Delight in God is very much at the heart of the Lord’s Day. In this final of meditations, we will extend ourselves to dwell on this final theme. In foreshadow of our final sabbath rest, this meditation will too shall extend. Take it as an opportunity for a prolonged, prayerful, seeking of the Lord, particularly through the worship he has given us on his hold day.

We have learned in these meditations that the Lord has set apart one day in seven to be his day, that’s what it means in Gen 2:1-3 when God made the day holy. If something is holy, that means it is set apart to God, which is why Scripture calls this day “the Lord’s Day.” This is why, in Isaiah 58:13, God calls the sabbath “my holy day.” Even under the Old Covenant, the Sabbath was called “the Lord’s Day”, they are one and the same thing! So this day of worship is to be dedicated to God in a special way as a day where we cease from our the work of dominion, and rest in God and worship him. The Old Covenant anticipated Christ by worshipping on the seventh day, we now follow the apostolic example and worship on the first day of the week which looks back to what Christ has done and anticipates the resurrection which is yet to come. In this meditation, we revel and delight in the beauty of the Lord’s Day.

We’ve seen in Genesis 2 that the Lord “blessed” the seventh day. The day of worship was therefore created to be just that: a blessing! We will open up that blessing in Psalm 92, a “Song for the Sabbath.” Now perhaps you remain unconvinced, and you’re not a “Sabbatarian”, so to speak. Very well, I do not judge you for that (Col 2:16). However, even if this is the case, I trust that your heart will be allured by the beauty of worship presented in this psalm, and that it will enrich your joy in the Lord at times of gathered worship with the saints. Sabbatarian or not, every Christian should be able to agree that there’s nothing better than worshipping God, and however you view your Sundays – the idea of having a day set aside to worship him and open up his word should still be a chief delight to your soul.

To those who believe in the Christian Sabbath, there is an important message as well. Sadly I think, for many, the Lord’s Day has become a day of drudgery rather than the day of blessing that it was made