Our false desires and motivations often come to the surface on the Sabbath. You may find that as you enter into the Sabbath, all sorts of odd and even disgusting desires float to the surface of your mind. It is okay. Offer those false motivations to Jesus and invite him to help you understand them and live more contentedly. Sabbath, in fact, is contentment. It is a day that we sit in contentment and gratitude for God and for what we already have. We cannot attain and accumulate more on the Sabbath, so we have to come to terms with what we already have. The Sabbath reminds us that the opposite
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