Monday, March 7
Jeremiah 16:91-9) 10-21, Romans 7:1-12, John 6:1-15
Q. 60. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
A. The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of GodÂÂ’s worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.
Q. 61. What is forbidden in the Fourth Commandment?
A. The Fourth Commandment forbiddeth the omission, or careless performance, of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about our worldly employments or recreations.
Q. 62. What are the reasons annexed to the Fourth Commandment?
A. The reasons annexed to the Fourth Commandment are: GodÂÂ’s allowing us six days of the week for our own employments, his challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath Day.
Prayer: I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you, and praise your name forever and ever. (Psalm 145:1-2)
Reflection: God gave us the Law and the Commandments so that we would no right from wrong. But, because we are of sin, we do wrong knowing it is against the Law. Jesus came into the world and died for our sins and through his death gave us the Holy Spirit so that we may always know good. God knows that because of our sinful nature, we will tend toward the wrong. But, by sacrificing his Son so that we might live and leaving us with the Holy Spirit within us, we may no right from wrong and resist the wrong.
Ref: Westminster Shorter Catechism (255k).
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