03/15/2026
The Sabbath
4th Sunday of Lent. Read Mark 2:23-28; 3:1-6.
The true Sabbath is the consciousness that we have
fulfilled the divine law in both thought and act.
The sabbath is a very certain, definite thing. It is a
state of mind that man enters or acquires when he goes into
the silence, into the realm of Spirit. There he finds true
rest and peace. The seventh day means the seventh or
perfect stage of one's spiritual unfoldment. Man had become
so lost in the darkness of sense consciousness that he
could not save himself, so the Saviour came. When man lays
hold of the indwelling Christ, the Saviour, he is raised
out of the Adam consciousness into the Christ
consciousness. He then enters the seventh stage of his
unfoldment, where he finds sweet rest and peace.
The Sabbath as an institution was established by man. God
does not rest from His work every seventh day, and there is
no evidence that there has ever been a moment's cessation
in the activity of the universe. We do not quarrel with our
brother over the observance
of the Sabbath. If he says we should worship God on the
seventh day, or on the first day, in either case we
acquiesce. Not only do we do God's service in praise, song,
and thanksgiving on the seventh day and the first day, but
every day. In the true Sabbath our mind is turned to God
every moment, and we are ever ready to acknowledge His holy
presence in our heart and life. "The sabbath was made for
man, and not man for the sabbath."
I affirm: "I rest in the consciousness of the true Sabbath,
and my heart is filled with joy and satisfaction."