"Is there nothing you can do about the environment?
Nothing may be one of the best things you can do.
One day every week. Do nothing.
Take a weekly day of rest. Make it a real sabbath. For you. For earth.
Don’t drive. Don’t shop. Don’t build.
Take a walk. Eat with friends. Play or read with your kids. Sing. Meditate. Celebrate contentment."
A similar movement is called the Earth Sabbath, and its website states:
"Give the Earth a rest one day a week, every week or for a morning or afternoon or even one hour a week."
Today’s world is not as religious as that of previous generations, so this might sound like a novel idea. But for anyone with Biblical understanding, it sounds as if the Sabbath of rest that God created is being reinvented for a secular audience, focusing not at all on God but on saving the earth.
But no matter how humans have drifted from God’s definition of the day or the week, the Bible has never varied or given authority to change the seven-day cycle that was founded in Genesis and continues uninterrupted to this day.
The Sabbath of the Bible has always been, and will always be, the seventh day of the week, from sunset Friday evening to Saturday sunset.
In the Fourth Commandment, God says, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8), explaining that by doing so we follow His example at creation of working six days and resting the seventh (Exodus 20:11).
Today a common idea (akin to what the Green Sabbath Project promotes) is that keeping a Sabbath is just taking a break—setting aside time for nothing more than rest and relaxation.
Q: Is that what God intended?
A: Not at all.
God set the Sabbath apart for a special purpose.
God set the Sabbath apart for a special purpose.
Instead of pursuing our own ways or finding our own pleasures, we are to delight in God’s ways, worshipping Him and doing things that please Him (Isaiah 58:13-14)."
L,H&T
