Who is the Lord of the Sabbath? Jesus clearly identifies himself as the Lord of the Sabbath today. He also points out that he is free to do good on the Sabbath.
There's a lot of debate about the Christian view of the Sabbath. I'll simply propose today that we consider that the believer is in the presence of the Lord of the Sabbath all the time. The Sabbath is the time of rest from our labors. As we saw in yesterday's reading, the labors from which we most need rest are those labors we enter into as we fight with sin. Sin is the curse, the Sabbath is the rest from the curse of sin. Christ our Sabbath has ushered us into an eternal Sabbath, the deliverance from sin. What day of the week is the Sabbath? Today. What do we rest from? We rest from sin because of Christ's love for us. Will tomorrow be the Sabbath as well? Yes it will. The Sabbath-day's rest from sin will last forever. After all, we are in the presence of the Lord of the Sabbath who has promised never to leave us or forsake us.
This is rest indeed. I wonder how many of us will remember that as we go about our busy days?
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