Keep & Reverence
"Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord."
Leviticus 26:2
This verse gives us two commands. The first is to keep the sabbath. Today, this means to go to church! On Sunday nothing that is not an emergency should get in the way of us going to church. Sleeping, sports, hobbies, family parties, nothing should get in the way of us coming to worship the Lord and hear His Word. We need the weekly time of getting away from all the sin and coming together to worship the Lord with our brothers and sisters in Christ. Exodus 20:8 says, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."
The second command is to reverence the sanctuary. We should be careful to keep our church looking nice. When people visit our churches, they should get the impression that we care about the place where we come to worship the Lord. A run-down, dirty building shows signs of ungratefulness and carelessness. Neither of those things bring glory to God. We ought to help keep the church clean, help fix things when they wear out or break, and be careful not to hurt anything when we are doing things at church. Even if a building is old, things can still be clean and pleasant. We need to take the time to take good care of the things that the Lord has provided us!
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