The Sabbath was a day of rigorous honesty and careful contemplation, a day of taking stock, examining the direction of life, and rooting oneself anew in God. The Jew on the Sabbath learned to pray, “Our hearts are restless all week, until today they rest again in Thee.” As a memorial of creation, the Jewish Sabbath foreshadowed the Sunday of the New Testament—the memorial of our re-creation in Christ Jesus.
