This four-part series, The Patterns of Jesus, challenges us to follow the patterns of Jesus. To do so, we must learn to adopt the spiritual disciplines Jesus practiced. In the next few weeks, we will focus on a different discipline from the life of Jesus.
The Sabbath is a gift from God to humanity in the form of a command. The Sabbath is the only ‘spiritual discipline’ that makes it into the Ten Commandments. Not church or Bible reading, not even prayer. Sabbath is the anchor discipline of the people of God. If we want to pattern our lives after Jesus, we must embrace God’s command to rest from our work.