Hello everyone, welcome to follow him favorites. If you've been following us this year, you know that we take a single question from each week's lesson. John this week's lesson is on the last handful of chapters in Isaiah.

And so we chose a question from Isaiah 58 where Isaiah says we need to call the Sabbath a delight. And yet for a lot of our listeners, especially our young listeners, the Sabbath isn't so delightful.

So John, how do you help someone who's a little bit younger say, I want to make the Sabbath day holy. I want it to be a delight, but it just seems to make me bored.

What do you do? How do you help someone see the Sabbath as more of a delight? I love the way you ask the question, make it a delight. And I think first you make a decision, I'm going to make it this way. I'm going to make my Sabbath wonderful.

I think I learned so much from a talk. Hank, I was now at BYU in like 1990 and President Nelson was elder Nelson gave a talk called Reflection and Resolution.

And my memory is in that talk. He quoted Ezekiel 2020, which sounds like good vision 2020. It also sounds like a year we just had that wasn't that great.

But he said that Ezekiel 2020 says, how am I Sabbaths and they will be a sign between me and D that you may know that I am the Lord your God. And the whole idea was, it's our sign to God that we're thinking about him.

And I began to think, what if God was watching me on the Sabbath, would he be able to tell that I was thinking about him? Had I made a decision to make the Sabbath different?

And I used to think it's a day of rest and then I became a bishop for a while. And I wasn't very restful. I don't think and I thought I needed to change the way I thought of rest too.

It was resting from worldly things and worldly stuff to think about and worldly shows or movies. It was about making God a bigger part of it and reading something different and finding somebody we could go serve in minister to and things like that.

And that made it more of a challenge to me. I think if you really want to make it a delight, you can get on your knees and ask the Lord, how can I make this more of a delight?

And I bet he'll give you some answers and it might be not only in what you how you spend your time but who and what you think about during that time.

No, absolutely. If we can learn to see this as an opportunity to do things differently. I know that perhaps your family doesn't play video games or doesn't watch TV or doesn't do something that they usually do on the other days of the week on Sunday.

And you can focus on that and focus on what you're missing. But it's going to be more of a delight to you if you see it as an opportunity to do things differently.

For example, I love to write emails to missionaries on the Sabbath because I just don't have a lot of time during the week. And so the pausing of that day gives me a chance to help those missionaries who love letters.

They love hearing from people back home. I also think as I've read the New Testament, I see Jesus healing a lot on the Sabbath. And so I've thought if it heals a relationship, if it heals a marriage, if it heals someone by administering, then that will become a delight to you.

If you're doing some healing on the Sabbath, I think the Savior would be delighted if we could do that. But I can see why it's difficult. I have five children and they, why can't we do this? Why can't we do this? Why can't we do this? I think Elder Holland said, if you focus on what you can't do, that's a pretty pathetic view of the Sabbath.

Let's focus on what we can do and how we can make this different and be creative. It doesn't mean you have to just sit around and say, I'm bored, I'm bored. It can be time to say, okay, this is a chance for me to be a little bit creative and find things that will be both delightful for me and for the Lord.

So instead of saying, what can I do? What can I do? And that's a totally different way to look at it. And how can I set the day apart? I love the idea of being set apart, not set aside.

I'm going to make this a better day. I'm going to make this a delightful day. And we, I think both of us don't want to start giving lists of things to do because everybody's different. We've got people all over the country and all over the world. How can you make it a delight? Do some healing, some blessing, and make it joyful and delightful? Good way to start.

Absolutely. I think the one not to do that I think the Lord would be okay with if we made a single item list, it would be don't judge others on how they practice the Sabbath.

You focus on you and what you can do to make it a delight. And then if other people let them do it, you know, their way. Don't worry too much about what other people are doing to make it a delight for them.

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