Yes, a Sabbath should be a day of rest, but we tend to start with our own expectations instead of with faith. We want the day to look like our version of rest. We want the house to be clean and calm and peaceful. In fact, we demand that it must be before we make it a day of rest, so we scramble and scramble and never get there. True rest is by faith, not by sight. It is obeying first, trusting that God will come through and make it all work. Maybe I don’t need to understand what perfect obedience looks like before I begin. After all, Christ is my perfect obedience.
