Christianity promotes our happiness and flourishing both with God and with others.
The human condition causes us to see the law as a burden as if God wants something from us. God has no deficiency or need of anything from us. In our natural state, we tend to perceive the Sabbath as if God is needy. Quite the opposite, the Sabbath was made for man. Man is needy and needs the Sabbath for rest, friendship with others, relaxation, and fellowship with God.
The Sabbath asks us to believe that with God we can do more in six days than without God in seven. When we live God's way we find that he will bless our work and we have gained a full extra day!
The law unexpectedly is often the opposite of what we naturally perceive. We think in our natural state that God asks us to take the hard way. The truth is the way of God is easy and light. Sin is the hard path and God asks us to join in his happiness if we will believe.
Try the way of God and have a day of rest. Taste and you will see that God is good.
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