My Perfect Sabbath

So what would my Sabbath day of delight and joy look like? I would begin my day by waking up early and watch the sunrise. I would then enjoy a rich cup of coffee while I study and delight in reading the Word of God. I would most likely have a good book on the topic, doctrine, or commentary on the passage of Scripture I would be feasting on as I enjoy my coffee and God life giving word. After enjoying and delighting in God word and enjoying my relationship with Him through my intellectual temperament, I would seek to enjoy God through His church. I am a Pastor so my Sabbath would include time spent learning, worshiping, fellowshipping, and enjoying God with my faith family. Gathering with my faith family is a huge delight for me and as I am much fresher and more patient in the mornings, being with them then and delighting in my relationships with my church family as we together enjoy God, our Father. After a great morning of worship as part of my Sabbath, I would look to enjoy great food with a smaller group of friends. I would spend time with a group of friends, a family from my church or another couple in my life. We would enjoy great food that my wife would make since she loves to cook and is amazing at, and I would enjoy this food as I enjoy beautiful company in a great relationship.

In my Sabbath of joy, after a great lunch meal with friends, I would look to spend more time talking, fellowshipping, sharing what God is doing with these great relationships over another cup of coffee. Later on in the day as the evening would draw closer I would look to spend some intimate time just talking and enjoying my wife and family. I love my children and they bring me so much joy as gifts from God. So being able to spend time with them around a meal, like macaroni and cheese, brings me great delight and would be a perfect way to spend the last meal of my Sabbath of joy. After the children go to bed I would end my twenty-four hours of joy and delight with my beloved, or wife. We would talk of the delights of the day, discuss what God is doing in our lives, what we learned that day from Him, and enjoy spending some quiet intimate time reading a good book or God’s word over the last great cup of coffee. I would fall asleep that night feelings full satisfied in my great day spent enjoying God, and His eternal gifts that would give me a foretaste of the eternal Sabbath to come.