Keep the Sabbath Day Holy

I was studying D&C 59 this morning and was reading about how we are to keep the Sabbath a holy day. Anyways..I liked it and thought I would share.

59:12 "Lord's day"

The purpose of the Sabbath day has never changed, to "keep thyself unspotted from the world," but the symbolism of the Sabbath has changed. When it was first given, it was for the purpose of remembering the creation of the world (Ex. 20:11). Next, the Lord said they were to remember that he had delivered them from the bondage of Egypt (Deut. 5:15). Today, we are to remember that on the first day of the week, the Lord Jesus Christ was raised from the dead (John 20:1). That is why it is called the Lord's day.

Too many people ask what we shouldn't do on the Lord's day when the question ought to be, "What should I be doing on the Sabbath?" Isaiah's instructions are very helpful in determining what is appropriate on this sacred day:

If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. (Isa. 58:13–14.)

We are not to do our pleasure on the Sabbath, but we are to call it a delight, holy, and honorable. We are to honor him and not do our own thing, find our own pleasure, nor speak our own words. Then the Lord's day will truly be delightful, holy, and honorable.