Reimagining Rest | You Are Made for Delight

So Pastor Josh today is going to be wrapping up our series on

reimagining rest. I wish it could last forever

because it's been so great. And so this morning's reading

comes from Isaiah 58. 13 through 14, it's in your hand out if you

keep your feet from breaking, the Sabbath and from doing as

you please on my holy day if you call the Sabbath a delight and

the Lord's holy day. Honorable and if you honor it

by, not going your own way and not doing as You please or

speaking Idle Words, then you will find the joy in the Lord

and I will cause you to ride and Triumph on the heights of the

land and feast on the inheritance of your father.

Jacob for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

This is the word of the Lord. Thanks Becky.

Hey everybody. Welcome again to reality.

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Josh, I'm one of the pastor's here, our communities are just

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and connected well. So come grab me after the

service is what I'm trying to say as as backyard.

He said this morning we are wrapping up a series on

reimagining rest. We have officially made it to

summer in Boston, as you can feel very Clearly in this

Auditorium right now, it is starting to get warm and

starting it muggy out there and school is out.

You know, many of us are shifting or downshifting or at

least adjusting into a new phase in a season.

And so we've been looking at scripture to tell us both about

rest in general and also about Sabbath in particular to really

look at and consider the scriptural practice of Sabbath

to see how it informs what it looks like for us to In the way

of Jesus. Now I know that Sabbath isn't

something that is familiar to all of us.

It's not something that I grew up practicing, even even as a

Christian. So to put it simply Sabbath, is

it's a day of rest. It's a 24-hour period, each week

that set aside to stop to rest, connect and worship for the

Jewish people in the Hebrew Bible, Sabbath was a command,

but for us, it's an invitation, an invitation that helps us.

To resist the defaults of our culture and live more fully into

the way of Jesus. And, and this morning, as we

wrap up this series, in particular, I want to invite us

to consider what it looks like to practice Sabbath as Delight

to practice Sabbath as the light.

But before we turn our attention to that, I have an exercise for

you all, we're going to do some reflection this morning.

So if you have a journal and pain gold star for you, pull

that out right now. If like most of you you don't

the notes app on your on your phone should work, just fine.

Pull that out. You can feel like I'm is this

literally, it's attached to my shoes.

I'm taking this thing off. Okay.

I was like why is this chord following me?

Um, but go ahead and grab something to journal with, to

reflect with the the backside of the Liturgy handout works fine

or worst case you can make a mental note, but I'm going to

ask a series of questions and you won't have time.

We're going to go through and pretty quick, you won't have

time to actually write them down, but just consider them in

your mind. And then make a note, you may,

you may just jot down a single word, that cues something for

you. We're just kind of doing a

mental inventory, this morning around rest.

So, first question for you, is this what addressed look like in

your family growing up, what address look like in your

family, growing up? Where their physical space is

dedicated to connection and conversation for you.

Maybe around the dinner table, a fire pit or a front porch where

there any physical spaces that were really dedicated to

connection and conversation in your family?

And where there are certain times when work or distractions

were out of balance spaces, when the TV was off, phones were

away. This was a dedicated time.

Were there any rituals that were part of rest for you?

Maybe it was a place, you'd go a tradition of some kind in your

family or even a meal that you would share together.

That symbolize or indicated. Hey, this is a, this is

distinct. This is different from our usual

Cadence. This is a moment of rest.

And how often did you rest growing up?

Was it every evening just on weekends, maybe every few

months. Maybe it all came to one

vacation that happened once a year.

What was the Cadence of rest for you?

Who did you rest with did rest look like time alone or with

others and and if with others who was present for that was it

just you know your immediate nuclear family did extended

family, participate. Was there an auntie or an uncle

or a grandma or a grandpa who is regularly part of that was your

church Community part of your rhythms of rest.

And anyway who was who was invited, who went on vacation

with you, who participated in your your times of rest

And what did these times away? Look like, where they slow and

quiet or filled to the brim with Adventure and experiences.

Or was it just normal routines with dad's sending emails from

somewhere else, right? What did what did these times of

rest? Look like

Last question. How about now?

what does rest look like for you today in this, in this moment,

the season this year and where do you notice parallels between,

how you rested growing up your family culture and what your

current practices are All right, group time.

So everybody turn to a neighbor, some of you who are sitting by

yourself and have to slide, but grab somebody else nearby and

we're going to take one minute to share.

One thing that you're noticing about how you rest, okay?

So turn to a neighbor and share. One thing that you're noticing

about how you rest. We're going to take one minute.

So groups of two or preferred 3 & A Pinch will do.

But one thing that you're noticing about how you rest will

take one minute, We're halfway through so second

person, if you haven't started already.

Okay, five seconds. And I'm going to start talking

again. So everybody, thanks for thanks

for taking just a minute to reflect, you know, it's

interesting. I think so often.

We're not actually aware of our culture of some of our values of

our rhythms until we take a moment to step back and actually

reflect. It's so interesting to notice

the ways that the things have lived just under the surface up

until we take a chance to look at them.

When I did this reflection, it was striking to me how little

rest as part of my family culture.

Candidly, I don't think that I'm particularly good at rest.

I'm still working on this. This is something I'm figuring

out. My typical practice has been to

work furiously, right up until whatever that break is.

That is scheduled, in fact, sometimes I think I work extra

hard because I know I have a break coming and so I'll go

flying up into it and then just crash into it, totally depleted

and exhausted. In fact, sometimes this has been

bad enough that Actually like day one of vacation, I will get

sick. This was a joke for a little

while, not a very funny joke because it happened like two or

three years in a row and it was like, wow.

Okay, I'm really like, I'm waiting for vacation and just

trying to get there and then slamming because anybody else

had any experience like this just me, okay.

See you in a few hands out there.

You know, another thing that I noticed about how I rest is I

considered this is that I'm I'm a maximizer because like I want

to Um, eyes all the time. I want to make it as meaningful

as possible. Which for me means having as

many experiences with the people, I'm with, as we can

possibly Jam in, this was showing up.

Unfortunately, on my recent family trip to spend time with

my family in Atlanta Allie and I and Ava went down to be with my

parents and my brother and his family and you know, I was the

stand or the Taskmaster, I don't know, for doing all the things

right. It was like Okay, let's go to

the pool. Let's take the kids to an indoor

play Space. Let's, let's go to the park.

Oh, it's nap time. Great!

Let's get in a board game. Let's, let's have Mom, share,

like, her whole life story. Let's, let's do all the things

and at one point my Dad pulled me aside and he's like, hey, I

don't know if you know this, but your brother's annoyed with you

right now, maybe it hadn't occurred to you, but we're like

supposed to be on vacation and you're rushing everyone all the

time. Like this is not, this is not

fun for the rest of it. Could you like chill out a

little bit? Oops, you know it was it was it

was another another reminder of what it looks like when my

defaults are on autopilot and my, you know, my intentions were

good. I wanted us to spend meaningful

quality family time together, but I wasn't creating what I

wanted. I was just going with the

defaults of my wiring and and I would even say of our culture

Because, you know, as I look around, we live in a hustle

culture, do we not, you know, it's kind of as kind of a Wiz

Khalifa Work Hard Play Hard kind of a thing, right?

It's we go hard hard at work, and then we go hard hard at

play. And this, this works for me

naturally because this is my natural wiring, but, but it gets

tiring. I mean, Boston is an ambitious

striving, hurry place. If you're from here, you may not

even realize that fully until you go.

Go somewhere else, but we fill our lives up, we serve on boards

in our free time and take night classes to get another degree.

You know, we have our kids enrolled in 17 different

programs so that every free minute is scheduled, we're going

and going so fast. And then when we get to

vacation, we go hard with vacation to our lives are full

of good things but they're they're overfull packed to the

brim and overflowing In Christian tradition, playing

hard has another name. Gluttony.

In the 4th Century, evagrius of pontus was a Christian monk from

modern-day turkey, who was a student of scripture and people

and he was, he was really reflecting on observing human

Tendencies and behaviors and both in himself and his others

and he began to catalog. And categorize some of the

disorder desires that he saw in scripture, and playing out all

around him. And, and one of these impulses,

that if a griest noted was gluttony, Now, when I hear the

word go out the I just think about overeating.

But for evagrius gluttony wasn't just or maybe even primarily

about food consumption. Gluttony was about a posture of

the soul that sought to satisfy longing.

By maximizing pleasure.', the soul that sat sought to satisfy

our longing by maximizing pleasure.

This morning, we're in Isaiah Chapter 58 and and this text in

Isaiah 58 · chapter mention

our in scripture is part of kind of a broader conversation in the

final movement of this, whole journey that Isaiah takes this

on in, which he is contrasting, the wicked and denouncing their

way of life. And he's contrasting that with

the people of God, with the righteous and the way of life

that God invites us into And before we get to the prophets

commandment on Sabbath, which was read for us earlier in

Chapter 58, the prophet is going off on the wicked, he's

announcing their behavior, their false religion.

And one of the things that he denounces in chapter 56, 11 and

12 is, is he denounces their practice of gluttony?

He doesn't use that word, but he describes the wicked as, as like

dogs with Mighty appetites who never have enough.

It goes on to caricature them and you can almost hear kind of

a mocking tone in verse 12. When he says, come each one

cried, let's get wine. Let's drink our fill of beer and

tomorrow will be like, today or even far better.

I think I heard that driving home through Southie last night

like okay, no, no shade to Southie.

But, you know, like sometimes this is a real thing that's

still happening in our culture, isn't it?

An ancient Eastern mythology, there is the concept of the

hungry, ghosts. Some of you may have heard of

this, the hungry ghosts is this mythological creature.

That has a cavernous belly, a cavernous stomach, but a tiny,

and shriveled neck, and mouth, and because of this bizarre

configuration, the Hungry Ghost is always hungry.

It's ravenous, it's eating eating eating constantly

indulging and indulging and indulging in no matter how much

it eats it can never be satisfied, it can never be full.

I think evagrius was thinking about this kind of thing when he

wrote If you give yourself over to the desire for food, nothing

will suffice to fulfill your pleasure for the desire for

food. It's a fire that ever takes in

and is ever in Flames. This dude lived a long time ago,

but he knew what's up and some of you just sidebar for the

Nerds out. There evagrius is thinking, went

on to become foundational for both, the Theology of the seven

deadly sins, and the Enneagram Which many of you are familiar

with but this is so much of our culture.

It's a chasing more faster. Better bigger, trying to

maximize pleasure by consuming more eat more food, do more

things, buy more stuff, visit more places collect all the

experiences. I think this is is gluttony work

hard play hard? And isn't it interesting?

That these two extremes are really like two sides of a coin.

They actually reinforce each other and come from the same

disorder drive to fill everything the striving.

This chasing. After that, we hope will somehow

fill the cavernous vacuum that we feel inside based on this,

this false hope that if we do enough, if we accomplished

enough if we experience Off that.

That somehow all of our desire will be satisfied and so work

hard play hard. And it's in Striking contrast to

this that we find in scripture this invitation to Sabbath in

Isaiah 58. In our text today.

As I mentioned the profit is not only denouncing the wicked but

he's also pointing towards a vision for the future of God's

people. And as he does.

So he is a he is he's inviting people into the practice of

Sabbath earlier in Chapter 58. He talks about Justice and

integrity, there's a lot more that we're not getting into.

That is also important and I just encourage you to go read

that some other time but I want to draw your attention

specifically to what he says in verse 13.

And Isaiah 58:13. He says if you keep your feet

Isaiah 58:13

from breaking the Sabbath from doing as you please on my holy

day if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's Day.

Honorable if you honor it by, not going your own way and not

doing as you please or speaking Idle Words, then you will find

your joy in the Lord. What a striking promise.

The prophet here is essentially saying, if you'll set aside this

one day, this one 24-hour period a week.

If you'll set them apart as distinct and unique, and

reserved for me, if you'll receive this practice of Sabbath

not as a burden, but a gift, you will experience a fullness of

joy and Delight. This word delight here, which

were really keying in on this morning, refers to something

that is lavish something, that's luxurious something, in which we

relish, and find enjoyment, and it shouldn't come as a surprise

to find the word delight in in concert with the word Sabbath.

In fact, John Mark, Comer notes that the Hebrew word for Shabbat

primarily means to cease or to stop, but it can also be

translated to Delight. Isn't that interesting?

This word has almost this dual meaning, or this dual

imagination of not only stopping, but also of getting

joy in God and our lives, in this world, Now, I don't know

about you but I make up my hunch is that Delight is probably not

the first word that you would connect with Sabbath.

Right, or with Christianity, in general.

I mean too often when we think of Sabbath or our faith, I think

many of us, I certainly have growing up kind of imagined

something glow more Grim, something where you have to kind

of clenched and be a little uncomfortable, and be really

devout and serious and, and somehow, you know, put on this

this Pious faiths and think serious thoughts.

Apparently, the people in Isaiah's time had this same kind

of misconception, because actually, this is the exact kind

of posture that Isaiah rebukes earlier in the chapter and verse

58, verse 5, he's poking fun at their.

Gloomy participation in religious ritual and listen to

what he asked sarcastically here.

He says, is this the kind of fast that I have chosen only a

day for a man to Humble himself. Is it only for for Bowing one?

Is head like a reed for lying in sack cloth and Ashes.

Is that what you call a fast today?

Acceptable to the Lord. The prophet is saying here this

he said God is not looking for you to just perform some kind of

extreme Act of Devotion to win his favor.

It's not all about how Pious and religious you are.

No God is longing for an authenticity in a reality to our

faith and part of that is actually a delight and a joy

Sabbath. Sabbath ought to be for us like

a holiday that comes once a week and and this this invitation

Shinto Delight actually fits perfectly.

When we have a true picture of what God himself is like, see

God tells his people. If you trust me, if you trust me

with this day, I will bless you in verses 11 and 14.

God describes here by mouth of Isaiah.

The lavish blessings that he is eager to pour out on his people.

When they show up in true faith. God wants to satisfy your needs.

Verse 11 tells us, you'll be like a well-watered.

Garden a spring whose Waters never fail.

And then in verse 14 he says alcoholic cause you to ride on

the heights of the land and to Feast on the inheritance of your

father. Now these words were written to

the nation of Israel but I don't think God's heart beat.

I don't think his posture has changed towards us because at

the bottom of all, of this flowery language is a profound

theological. Truth, God loves you.

He Delights in you. I don't think the Church Father

Saint irenaeus was off when he wrote the glory of God is Man

Fully Alive. Fully Alive.

What does it look like for you to be fully Alive friends?

What I'm trying to tell you this morning is that God takes joy in

human flourishing. God is a good dad, and he wants

his kids to experience good things.

He longs to bless you and for you to experience the goodness

of his creation and this makes sense, because this is, this is

God's posture, this is who he is, he is a God who Delights in

Genesis in the pattern for Sabbath.

We see that the god worked 6 days and then he kicks back,

right? He took a break, he inhaled and

looked at everything and said, this is very good.

He said it's very good. God takes breaks, he takes

moments to enjoy the goodness of his creation.

So why don't we Friends. I think some of us and my myself

first among them that need to repent.

Like, we need to repent too. Often we go through the world

dejected or uptight, anxious or judgmental.

I mean, can you imagine what it would do to our witness in this

city? What it would do in our

families? In our friend groups, if what we

were known for as followers of Jesus was joy and Delight.

Can you imagine like sounds pretty nice to just live in

that, right? I can imagine that that would

make a pretty big difference in and this is consistent with

scripture like when when Paul goes to talk about the fruits of

the spirit when he, when he sets out the characteristics of

someone marked, by the spirit of God, the first thing he says is

love and the second thing he says is joy.

Like, that's no accident. Our lives are not intended to be

glum and gloomy, they're intended to be marked by a

delight and a joy. Comer says, Sabbath is not just

that you stop working and sit on the couch for a day every week.

It's about cultivating an environment and atmosphere to

enjoy your life in the world. And your God, a mode of being

Last week in our series, Richard talked about how worship invites

us to connect with God into a posture of worship and intimacy.

He talked about how how God Delights in us and wants to be

present with us and and friends. I think it's beautiful here

because Delight what we're talking about today.

A practice of delight and a practice of worship.

Go hand in hand, right? They go together.

I love how c.s. Lewis talked about this.

He has this beautiful image in one of his writings.

He says, any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you

something about the sun and a patch of sunlight.

Coming through the trees will show you something about the

Sun. Which you could never get from

reading books on astronomy. In the same pure way.

Pure and spontaneous Pleasures are patches of God light in the

woods of our experience. Have you ever considered that

like Every Time We Touch a good and beautiful thing in the

world, every time we experience pleasure, it is an invitation to

just as when you see the sun beams fall on the forest floor,

your eye is caught by the beam itself and goes back up to the

Sun to travel. That same Journey from the

goodness of your life, from the things that you are appreciating

and finding to be beautiful to go back up to the giver of all

good things. In Worship.

Delight and worship are inseparable.

But so many of us are missing out because we're not entering

into Delight, we're not entering into worship.

Instead, we're chasing trying to satisfy a soul need with

physical stuff. And maybe it's like material

Goods, maybe it's experiences but we're in this striving

posture of more more. I need I need more.

Even the goes even when we take a break like even when we go on

vacation, this internal conversation this internal

motivator doesn't stop right when we go on vacation half the

time we're not really present, right?

We're thinking about the to-do lists back home, we're taking

photographs to post on Instagram and take Top to show off and to

perform for some other audience. Like, we're losing the ability

to actually be present in the moment and to experience the

goodness of God, right here in our lives that already exists.

And instead we go chasing these other bigger and better

experiences. Maybe if I can go to this

concert, if I could go to this place.

And if I could could take this vacation and somehow, my soul

would be filled. And the answer isn't in bigger

or better. Because what we're solving for

is not primarily a need that comes from outside of us.

It's a shift that we need to make inside of us.

I'm not trying to talk you out of it.

I'm not trying to talk you out of a caishen friends.

But what I am trying to do is I'm trying to invite you into a

practice of delight. And here's the thing about

Delight, Delight is not determined by the Grandeur of

your experience. This is really good news.

Like you don't have to have some, some big momentous thing.

You don't need to travel to Monaco.

It doesn't demand a cottage on the cape or a villa on the

vineyard, right? You can collect all the

experiences. Play hard do all the things in

still miss out on rest and Delight.

If you're not present in it or you can experience the light in

small everyday things, right where you are.

So there's a beautiful illustration of this that I'd

like for us to actually enter into an experience together and

for this I have some volunteers strategically planted around the

room who are going to become going around and passing out a

raisin. You are going to need a raise in

this morning. If you are a volunteer with

raisins, please begin, Distributing them at this time.

So there are these little boxes try and avoid germs, you can

dump them, whatever is needed, once you get your raise and pass

it on, you only need one and don't eat it immediately.

All right. And this practice that I want us

to experiment with together with actually comes from, from Dave

Potter and the world of mindfulness.

But I think it's a beautiful illustration of exactly what I'm

talking about today. All right.

If you don't have a raisin in your hand, yet, please raise

your hand so that someone can find you with a raisin.

Everybody needs one before we can continue.

Everybody have a raisin. It's okay if you have to but you

got to have at least one. All right.

So I want you to just hold the, hold the Raisin in your hand,

hold it out in the palm of your hand for a moment here, and I

want you to pretend that you are an alien from Mars and you have

never before in all of your life, seen a raisin.

Really look at it. Like, I want you to examine it

almost like a scientist, would Notice if your raisin has some

crevasses. Some indentations.

You can turn it over to see how the light hits it.

And even the different shades that might be present in your

raisin. Often we think of raisins of

like black or I don't know, I think of them as purple, but

yours might have Flex or brown or of gold as well.

And this raised in here that you're holding in your hand is

extraordinary. Simple thing that's kind of the

point this morning, but it's also like a crazy Majestic,

amazing thing. This is Raising didn't always

exist as a raisin. It was a grape and a Vineyard

somewhere and that grape needed certain things to survive and to

grow it needed Sun, it needed soil, it needed water whether

from the sky or from irrigation. If you look really closely at

it, you might be able to see the place where the stem was see if

you can find. Find that.

The stem is basically the umbilical cord for this raisin.

The place where all the nutrients from Sun and soil came

and poured into it. This raisin Came To You by way

of an entire ecosystem of care. Not only in the present, but in

the past, there were there were plants and animals that died.

There was fertilizer that all came into this.

This raisin that you hold in your hand, you're looking at the

fruits of years. And then this raised in while it

was still, a great was picked by some labor or maybe it was put

on a sheet of paper somewhere and allowed to dry.

It says, on the box son made. So I suspect that it was put out

in the sun and allowed to dry over the course of weeks until

it got the wrinkles that we see here today and then somebody

somehow they gathered this up they packaged it in some way,

took it to a packaging plant, put it in these tiny little red

boxes. Then it was put on another truck

and taken to a grocery store. I mean, this raisin has been on

a whole journey. surprisingly cheap, when you consider, So

notice this raisin in a fresh way.

It's a fruit that was imbued with sun and sky and nutrients

the labors of Pickers and packagers, and grocery store

clerks and even in the pasture and some Hospitality volunteers

this morning, is it came to you, feel it in your fingers, touch

it. Is there a certain way that it

feels? You can kind of squeeze it a

little bit, just notice the texture.

Yours might be drier than mine, but mine feels a little pliable.

Not hold it up to your nose and see if you can smell anything

like I smell or doesn't work very well.

But I can smell this raised in just a little bit.

All right. Now, take the Rays into your

mouth don't swallow it whole. All right, the tendency is to

just pop it in and chew it but but instead we're going to make

this more of a deliberate process.

So I want you to just put it in your lips.

Hold it in your lips for a minute.

It's gonna be fun talking with the mic.

You can bring it between your teeth but don't break the skin.

And just roll it around. Let it visit different parts of

your mouth. Allow it to roll to the front of

your tongue. To the back do like a squirrel

and put it in your cheek. Now, if you've been pretty

careful about this, you haven't broken the skin yet.

So go ahead and just gently. Tap it with your teeth.

Okay, just enough to break the skin.

And see if you can notice like a little burst of flavor.

When that happens, it's hard to keep from chewing it.

I want to chew it. Some of you already swallowed

it, but just keep rolling it around.

Notice the flavor, is it changes shape or presses against your

palate? And when you are ready without

taking big bites, take just just little the tiniest bite.

You can. you can keep taking tiny, tiny little bites and and

with each one, There's notice the sensation.

Notice the flavor. Feel the flavor taste the

flavor. You may notice it's beginning to

break up in small pieces. I'm wanting to bite mine down

with my molars, really hard, but I'm trying to resist that.

If you haven't already swallowed it as you continue to take these

small bites, you'll notice they start to get smaller and

smaller. Maybe you can feel different

parts of the raisin and different parts of your mouth.

You can keep chewing and before before long, the raisin you'll

have you'll eating it. But even when you do, you might

notice that there's some like, there's a residual flavor,

right? You can still taste it in your

mouth. Friends.

I don't know if you've eaten a lot of raisins before or just a

few. Maybe this was your first

reason. Maybe you, like Rashad hate

raisins for no apparent reason. I don't know.

But how easy would it be? To go through a whole box of

raisins without having the experience that we just did.

Like how many of you actually, you know, not everybody likes

the flavor, right? But how many of you like notice

something about a raisin that you've never noticed before and

that little experience just now. I did probably a lot of us.

Write a raisin is a tiny, tiny simple, not even very cool

thing, right? It's just shriveled fruit.

And yet it's its Majestic and it's miraculous and if you eat

it like we just did. You might even find yourself

delighting in a raisin of all things.

And friends. This is the invitation for us

today. Look, I know we're never going

to be fully present in every moment.

You're not going to eat every bite of food, like you just

consumed that raisin? But if you just stay on default,

our culture will give you whiplash and leave you anxious.

You'll keep swinging back and forth between hustle on the one

side and gluttony on the other, in an endless cycle that can

never be satisfied. Work Hard, Play Hard Work, Hard,

Play, Hard, and repeat But God is inviting us into a slower way

into a radical alternative in this pattern of Sabbath.

Six days of Labor. And a day of rest, and a day to

not just sit on the couch, but to enter in and intentionally

experienced, the goodness that he has given us to notice it to

savor it to Delight in it and then to move from these

experiences of delight and goodness to trace them, just

like the sun beams back up to God In Worship.

This friends is what it means to practice Sabbath.

It's not a burden, it is a gift. It's a blessing that you receive

it today. Do you practice it?

Now, you consider what it looks like for you to bring even these

tiny notices, maybe it's the raisins that you ate today.

Maybe it's eating slowly for one meal.

Maybe it's noticing the flowers or the smile and COO of the

baby, right? These things that we pass by

every single day without noticing and enter into Delight,

The Lord says, if you'll keep your feet from breaking the

Sabbath, if you'll call it a delight then you will find joy

in the Lord. Would you pray with me?