Yahweh Mekaddesh

Today I wanted to share what my husband Terry and I studied in the book The Names of God this past week on the road.  We really learned a lot and reflected on some mistakes we made raising our children, hoping our children do not make these same mistakes with our grandchildren.

Yahweh Mekaddesh 

 ~  "He makes you holy"  ~

Theme verse for the study this week is Exodus 31:13

“But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘ You shall surely observe My Sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

As we read and thought about making the Sabbath holy we thought back on how we have celebrated the Sabbath during our married life. We did not make the Sabbath holy. We spent a couple hours "in church" doing maybe a Sunday school class, teaching children's church or sitting in a worship service, but we only spent that couple hours in worship mode, and then would either go home to dinner, go to a friend's or family member's home for lunch or go out to eat. Then the afternoon would be spent either working, fishing , tinkering around, napping or fellowshiping. But the key here is there was no further time spent one on one with our Creator.

We celebrate the Sabbath as do most evangelicals on Sundays. I am sure many have a real problem with this, but it is not an issue for us. Our issue is HOW we are celebrating, not WHEN. And the biggest part of this is the WHY we are celebrating this day once a week. God said the Sabbath was made for us, not for Him. I think this is where we got off track. It is FOR us to spend time in fellowship with our God. It is a time for us to fill up, reflect on our blessings, give praise to our Lord, and to learn to know Him more intimately it is a time for us to allow Him to Make us holy. So if we are off doing our own thing, we are not getting filled like we need to. We need to desire this total time with God, this time of fellowship. We need to desire more than anything else a sweet time in His presence. to reflect, to be thankful, to give our praise to Him. To sit and sing Holy Holy Holy to our gracious provider our Yahweh Mekaddesh, The one who sanctifies us or makes us holy.

Terry and I are going to commit more of our Sabbath to our Lord. We are going to commit time and fellowship. We want you to join us!  We know there will be no greater reward than to know Yahweh Mekaddesh  and to allow Him to make us holy.