Post by Mark on Jun 23, 2008 5:48:11 GMT -8
Elohaynoo Veh’Elo-hay Ahvotainoo
Our God and God of our fathers, may You be pleased with our rest. Sanctify us in Your commandments and grant us our portion in Your
. Satisfy us from Your goodness and make us rejoice in Your Salvation. And purify our hearts to serve You in truth. In love and favor, O Lord our God, grant us Your holy Shabbat as a heritage, and may Israel who sanctifies Your name, rest therein. Blessed are You, O Lord, who makes the Shabbat holy.
Lots of folks, particularly from a Protestant Christian background, find little value in the liturgical prayers. They find them rote and confining. They’ve enjoyed the freedom to pray their own hearts, to share their own thoughts and feelings. The purpose of the liturgical prayers is not to share with Adonai who we are; but to step into His presence and catch a glimpse of who is the Holy One.
Holiness is unnatural to me. It is not something that I can conjure up at will, nor even pretend to demonstrate before my peers. It is completely foreign to my substance. It is the sum result of having set aside my agendas, my pride, my anxiety, my sinfulness and given the space of the day for Adonai to fill.
If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your own pleasure on My Holy Day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words: Then you will delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
(Isaiah 58:13-14)
The Sabbath day is not about expressing ourselves to God: it is about giving ourselves to Him. It is freeing our minds from our own stuff so that He might have the day to enjoy our fellowship with Him. It is not a talent show for us to display ourselves for other believers, nor is it a day of intellectual stimulation. Those things have their place and are valuable in our experience of worship; but they are not the purpose of our Sabbath rest, nor do they lend toward obeying the commandment of the Sabbath day. It is not about us… it’s about Him.
Blessed are You, Adonai, for it is You who makes the Shabbat holy.
May we enter into His holiness… even if just for a moment on this His day of holiness.
Our God and God of our fathers, may You be pleased with our rest. Sanctify us in Your commandments and grant us our portion in Your
. Satisfy us from Your goodness and make us rejoice in Your Salvation. And purify our hearts to serve You in truth. In love and favor, O Lord our God, grant us Your holy Shabbat as a heritage, and may Israel who sanctifies Your name, rest therein. Blessed are You, O Lord, who makes the Shabbat holy.Lots of folks, particularly from a Protestant Christian background, find little value in the liturgical prayers. They find them rote and confining. They’ve enjoyed the freedom to pray their own hearts, to share their own thoughts and feelings. The purpose of the liturgical prayers is not to share with Adonai who we are; but to step into His presence and catch a glimpse of who is the Holy One.
Holiness is unnatural to me. It is not something that I can conjure up at will, nor even pretend to demonstrate before my peers. It is completely foreign to my substance. It is the sum result of having set aside my agendas, my pride, my anxiety, my sinfulness and given the space of the day for Adonai to fill.
If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your own pleasure on My Holy Day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words: Then you will delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
(Isaiah 58:13-14)
The Sabbath day is not about expressing ourselves to God: it is about giving ourselves to Him. It is freeing our minds from our own stuff so that He might have the day to enjoy our fellowship with Him. It is not a talent show for us to display ourselves for other believers, nor is it a day of intellectual stimulation. Those things have their place and are valuable in our experience of worship; but they are not the purpose of our Sabbath rest, nor do they lend toward obeying the commandment of the Sabbath day. It is not about us… it’s about Him.
Blessed are You, Adonai, for it is You who makes the Shabbat holy.
May we enter into His holiness… even if just for a moment on this His day of holiness.
