During my journey this year I plan to question the everyday traditions and why we do the things we do. When we come to worship our Father in Heaven, how do we do it? When should we do it? Instead of following a certain church, I want to follow God using the Bible. This is our instruction manual and I want to get to know it much better than I do now. I want to teach my children what I didn't learn at a young age. I want to encourage my family and friends to take a leap of faith and change things in their life. Change can be hard but there comes a time when we need to shake things up, maybe redirect our life. I have faced opposition and don't always say the right thing or make the right decision but I want to better myself. I want to stand firm in what I believe and I want everyone to know that I love God The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. I believe in the Trinity. I believe in Jesus Christ as my Savior. I pray for the Holy Spirit to lead me on this journey!
The Day of Worship is one of the places I want to start - How important is it?
I figured I would start my search with the Sabbath. Look at as many Bible verses as I could find and see if there was ever any reason to change the Sabbath or if it matters what day we worship on. There are several arguments out there...Some say the Sabbath only applies to the Israelite's, some say it was nailed to the cross and Sunday was the sign of worship under the new covenant, yet others say you should worship every day, not just on Saturday...I read some opposing views on the Sabbath and why it isn't relevant today...who changed it and when. So far, this is what I believe - I believe the Sabbath Day is a special day set aside by God, our Father in Heaven. He sanctified this day. His people are to worship on the Seventh Day as a sign of obedience and reverence to Him, our Creator. I do not believe the Sabbath Day was nailed to the cross. If so, then all commandments were nailed to the cross and that just isn't feasible. I do not believe any man on this Earth has the authority to change the day of worship. I do not believe Jesus gave any such power to any man on this Earth. I believe I am part of the modern day Israelite's. I also believe that I should worship God every day BUT the Sabbath Day should be different. I should rest in my Savior's arms. I should leave the secular world behind on this day. I should make the most effort possible to make the Sabbath Day a delight for me and my family, not wish it away so I can get back to my "everyday" life. I do believe I still have a lot to learn regarding the Sabbath and how to keep it holy. I pray that God will not give up on me in my fleshly weakness.
As I was reading about the Sabbath last night, I was drawn to other topics and read about true repentance and how to achieve it and I will be working on that in my life. There are things I hadn't really thought about - we are to confess each sin...not just blanket them all and ask God to forgive everything we have ever done...I read that we should actually pray to God, asking him to bring to our mind ANY and ALL sin we have committed that we may not even realize. I imagine this will take a while. It isn't something that I will be able to complete in one evening or even one week, etc. I will try to pray daily for God to bring to my mind any sin that I have not asked forgiveness for. I truly want to repent and move on and not worry about my past any more. I want to look forward. I want to be a better person. I want to be a better wife, mother, friend, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin. I want to be a Christ-centered person.
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