Hello everyone, it's Aunt Frenita
Today's story is called
A Day of Celebration
The memory verse is from Genesis Chapter 2, verse 3
It says
And God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy
Today's message is we worship God, when we enjoy His Sabbath
Birthday celebrations are fun
Did you ever wish that you could have more than one birthday a year?
When God created the world,
He created a special day to be celebrated once a week
He called the day, Sabbath
And He wants us
To share in His Sabbath celebration, every week
For six days, God had been very busy
creating the world and everything in it
Everything from the sun,
moon and stars
down to the tiny little ants
and the smallest creatures in the sea,,
was just how He had planned it
He looked at all, and saw that it was good
God had saved the best till last
He created Adam and Eve on the sixth day
Now there was only one thing left to create
A special time that would help this new world,
to remember Him as its creator
This day would give Adam and Eve
time to get to know Him
God smiled with pleasure
On the seventh day,
God rested, and spent time with Adam and Eve
He called the seventh day the Sabbath, and blessed it
The first Sabbath Adam and Eve
spent with God was a joyful time
They talked about the wonderful things that God had made
They walked in the garden
admiring the beauty of the plants
and enjoyed the animals
It was a day they did not want to end
it was so wonderful to spend time with God
God explained that
every week they could enjoy this special time with Him
Yes, they would spend time with God everyday
but during the week, there were many things that would keep them busy
On Sabbath, Adam and Eve could rest from that work
And enjoy a special time with God
Adam and Eve were thrilled at the thought of a day to
explore wonderful things with their Creator
They had so many questions they wanted to ask
Later, when Adam and Eve disobeyed God,
they were shut out from their beautiful garden home
They soon began to understand
what an awful thing they had done
Adam had to work harder
to care for the plants and animals
Things began to die
Sabbaths became a time to spend with God without doing work
God took time to explain to Adam and Eve His plan
to rescue the world from sin.
He explained that Sabbath was an important part of that plan.
After they sinned, a huge gap seemed to separate them from God.
Sabbath gives the opportunity for people and God to be together
God told Adam and Eve that Satan would try to make people believe
that he, was in charge of the world
Satan would try to persuade people that God was not the Creator
He would try to persuade them not to meet with God on the Sabbath
Adam and Eve couldn't understand that
Why wouldn't people want to spend time with God?
They enjoyed spending time with God because they loved Him
And knew that He loved them
God wants us to know today
that when the earth is made new
Everyone will worship together on the Sabbath day
And we will walk and talk with God
Face to face.
This podcast is read by Frenita Buddy
for gracelink.net
Created and produced by Falvo Fowler
Post produced by Faith Toh at Studio Elpizo
The theme music is by Clayton Kinney
Animation and artwork by Diogo Godoy
The audio engineer was Karel Holness
For more information, please visit gracelink.net