+ Today we consider the true meaning of “Sabbath.” Saturday,
for the Jewish nation, is a symbol of a love Alliance between God and mankind.
Creation, and all its manifest glory, is conceived as a space, an arena, for
the Alliance, as a meeting place between God and man, as a place to worship.
And so our gospel today is
about true worship.
True worship, the true
offering to God cannot be the destruction of something (to sacrifice an animal
for example), but it is rather the union of man and creation with God.
Belonging to God has nothing
to do with destruction or “non-being”, but rather a way of being (“to be with
God”).
Sabbath means to return to the
origins, to clean up the pollution that our works have produced, but when man
refuses the “leisure of God” – worshipping – then he becomes “a business
slave”.
Sabbath more importantly has
to do with God’s way of seeing it, rather than us. He sees it as the Table of the Last Supper ultimately –
and so should we.
Lord,
may nothing come before being fed by you, and service to you.
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