Today: [Isaiah 56] Keeping God’s Judgments, Remembering the Sabbath. In this chapter, Isaiah calls on us to keep the judgments of the Lord and to honor God’s justice. What does that mean to us as New Testament believers? God has not called us to adapt our lives to some stylized pseudo-Jewish culture in order to please Him. Many have done this in spite of repeated warnings by the apostles themselves against adopting Jewish philosophy outside the liberty of Christ. We are called to keep God’s Sabbath and that has nothing to do with a day or the week or how long is a Sabbath Day’s journey. The Sabbath of God is an understanding and embrace of what God has prepared for us in Christ and trusting not in ourselves or religious tradition but in who Jesus is and what He did for us on the cross 2000 years ago.
