The best of days

Sunday. The Sabbath. The Lord’s Day. A delight to my soul.

Newlands Valley

13 “If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways,or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; 14 then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” — Isaiah 58:13-14 esv

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Calvin: true religion is…

2007forest1Here indeed is pure and real religion; faith so joined with an earnest fear of God that this fear also embraces willing reverence, and carries with it such legitimate worship as is prescribed on the law. And we ought to note this fact even more diligently: all men have a vague general veneration for God, but very few really revenge him… (INSTITUTES, Battles edition, I:43)

Amen.
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