November 8th. We honor what we enjoy. If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,

from doing your own 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, then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride

on the heights of the earth, Isaiah 58, 13 and 14. It is possible to pursue God without glorifying God.

If we want our quest to honor God, we must pursue him for the joy of fellowship with him.

Consider the Sabbath as an illustration of this. The Lord rebukes his people for seeking their own

pleasure on his holy day. Turn back your foot from the Sabbath from doing your own pleasure on my

holy day. Does he mean that we should not seek our joy on the Lord's day?

No, because the next thing he says is call the Sabbath day a delight, and in verse 14,

you shall take delight in the Lord. So what he's criticizing is that they are delighting in their

own business on the Sabbath, rather than delighting in the beauty of their God, and the rest

and holiness that this day stands for. He's not rebuking their hedonism.

He's rebuking the weakness of it. As Seas Lewis said, we are far too easily pleased. They have

settled for secular interests and thus honor them above the Lord. Notice that calling the Sabbath

a delight is parallel to calling the holy day of the Lord honorable. If you call the Sabbath a

delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable, this simply means you honor what you delight in

or you glorify what you enjoy. The enjoyment of God and the glorification of God are one

His eternal purpose and our eternal pleasure unite in one experience of worship. This is what the

Lord's day is for. Indeed, this is what all of life is for.