God granted special favor to his children by offering them the Sabbath. Six days a week we can spend time with Jesus, but he set the Sabbath day apart especially for time with him. Celeste perrino Walker says...
- "he meets with us just to be with us, to refresh us, to celebrate with us. The thousands of things that haunt us, the multiple forms of media that clamor for our attention, the need to do, to find, and to see is stilled for twenty-four hours as the God of the universe stoops low to meet with us for a weekly spiritual date." [Making Sabbath Special, page 16]
What a special favor!
"Blessed is the man who does this, the man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil."
Isaiah 56:2
"The Sabbath should be made so interesting to our families that its weekly return will be hailed with joy. In no better way can parents exalt and honor the Sabbath than by devising means to impart proper instruction to their families and interesting them in spiritual things, giving them correct views of the character of God and what He requires of us in order to perfect Christian characters and attain to eternal life."
Ellen White, Testimonies, vol. 2
page 585
"The value of the Sabbath as a means of education is beyond estimate. Whatever of ours God claims from us, He returns again, enriched, transfigured, with His own glory. . .The Sabbath and the family were alike instituted in Eden, an in God's purpose they are indissolubly linked together."
Ellen White, Education
page 250
