The Importance of the Sabbath

In the Old Testament, there's repeated language that God gave them the Sabbath. Leviticus warns the death penalty for not taking a Sabbath. When I'm busy and stressed and I work over work, then I just don't really soak up and enjoy my life,. There's a lesson here to Israel in the wilderness. Some of us want to just leave the wilderness. But guess what? Even Jesus had his time of testing and training before he could go public with Christ. And did you know he gave us something special to help us through the wilderness? Nobody wants to be in the wilderness, 40 years of manna. Friends the wilderness is hard. It's rough and gives us the