The Sabbath Day

Should we keep the sabbath and which day is it?

Luke 14:1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.

3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?

4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;

5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

6 And they could not answer him again to these things.

There was a time in my life that I have worked 7 days a week, doing shutdowns on power stations. Thinking back to that time, I wouldn’t want to do that ever again. I was basically in a trance the whole time and overtired. I had pain most places in my body and even started to have weird emotions.

The job I have now is what I always wanted to do. I worked so many hours at this, even weekends. I don’t need to do stuff physically; I work on a computer the whole day. Then after a few months, I started getting bad neck pains and couldn’t concentrate on my job anymore. It was like my brain was shutting down. I also started to stress about small things and started to overcomplicate things.

I started doing some research about resting and basically concluded that there should be at least one day a week rest.

So, I started to put Saturday out for my rest day. I do as little as possible, resting my brain and body. After about a month, I started to feel relaxed again and the stress stopped.

The sabbath day is Saturday on the Jewish calendar, the roman catholic changes this to Sunday. Some say because catholic’s started worshipping the sun idle, others say the non-catholic churches changed it to Sunday now because the Christians took their tithe the first day of the week to church. The first day of the week is Sunday.

This, of course, is not a good reason to change the sabbath day to any other day of the week. Also, it is not indicated in the Bible that we should change the day to any other day of the week. I am involved in a church and are active in the activities. Sometimes, I work harder at church on a Sunday than at my work during the week and I think a lot of other people do too.

It is part of the 10 Commandments to keep. But if you try to keep it, it means that you are not allowed to go out of your house, work or allow anyone else to work. So basically, you should switch off the electricity of your house and not use water from a tap. Someone might be working in the power or water plant and consuming these causes people to work.

So personally, I think we should at least rest one day a week for the sake of our bodies.

If we must keep the sabbath day as Christians, then we all are in trouble here!