It’s All About Love
Nothing is more important than love. After all, the two great commandments are all about loving God with all our hearts and loving our neighbor as ourselves (1 John 4:8).
But as Benjamin Franklin said, “Time is the stuff of which life is made.” Love depends on time. Whether that means a date with your significant other, a road trip with the family, or gathering with a church community each week to worship God, all love relationships are nurtured and flourish in the context of quality time.
And to be sure, quality time is not what happens in a typical family on a weekday morning, when everybody is gulping down food, primping hair, and ransacking closets for elusive clothing as they get ready to rush off to work, school, and appointments.
No—quality time means we take a deep breath, pause, rest, and listen to the ones we love. We mesh together and absorb one another into our lives. Our love relationships do not grow racing by one another, or even racing side by side, but in resting together. They also flourish best when we have a healthy love relationship with God. And that love is exactly why the subject of this magazine is so important in this hyper-accelerated age.
In the pages that follow, we’ll explore the history, mystery, and relevance of a day of rest that the Bible calls the Sabbath, “a bridge that connects heaven and earth, God and people.”
It’s an extraordinary gift that so many have forgotten, but as you’ll see clearly, the main reason God wants us to “remember the Sabbath” has everything to do with love.
