Hello everyone, I'm sure this question has been discussed before but I wanted to bring it up today. How is your Sabbath/Lord's Day spent? As some of you may have picked up before, (I think I've mentioned it) I am 17 years old and consequently live at home with my parents. I was convicted of the Puritan view of the Sabbath not very long ago and celebrate the day separate from my unbelieving father and my Christian mother who doesn't have the same view of the day as I do. I'm still trying to work out how I ought to go about the day without making it legalistic but I do take comfort in the fact that I believe I am rejoicing in it and enjoying it the more I participate. My Sabbath day usually looks like this:
-Awake and take care of my dog (let outside and feed)
-Read Scripture (4 chapters today, but on January 1st I'm starting a plan where I'll read 10 chapters everyday)
-Prepare for and go to the SBC church near our house for morning worship
-Get home and read (this is usually how I spend most of the day, reading edifying literature)
-Some time in the middle of the day I sometimes listen to a sermon online
-[Singing Psalms, but usually spread out throughout the day. I've started sometimes singing a verse at the end of my prayers as well. I always sing them alone]
-Get ready and travel to the OPC mission work for evening worship
-Get home pretty late and read some more, watch a sermon/lecture with my mother
-Pray with my mother and then by myself, end day
I do need to do some modifying, specifically adding much more Scripture. Where I fail the most however, Sabbath or any other day, is spending time in dedicated prayer. This is perhaps my greatest failure in my Christian life, so I would ask you brothers and sisters to perhaps pray for me. When we get home from morning corporate worship we eat together and my father always watches football, and I usually listen to instrumental/classical music and read to draw my mind away from the TV set, today I listened to Psalm recordings. I would also like to add more Psalm singing but it's a little strange I must admit to try to sing by myself upstairs or whatnot without drawing the attention of my parents.
Once again I wish not to form a list of do's and don't's but rather improve my time spent worshipping the Lord. Enjoy this day of rest from the worship and sanctify it brethren!
-Awake and take care of my dog (let outside and feed)
-Read Scripture (4 chapters today, but on January 1st I'm starting a plan where I'll read 10 chapters everyday)
-Prepare for and go to the SBC church near our house for morning worship
-Get home and read (this is usually how I spend most of the day, reading edifying literature)
-Some time in the middle of the day I sometimes listen to a sermon online
-[Singing Psalms, but usually spread out throughout the day. I've started sometimes singing a verse at the end of my prayers as well. I always sing them alone]
-Get ready and travel to the OPC mission work for evening worship
-Get home pretty late and read some more, watch a sermon/lecture with my mother
-Pray with my mother and then by myself, end day
I do need to do some modifying, specifically adding much more Scripture. Where I fail the most however, Sabbath or any other day, is spending time in dedicated prayer. This is perhaps my greatest failure in my Christian life, so I would ask you brothers and sisters to perhaps pray for me. When we get home from morning corporate worship we eat together and my father always watches football, and I usually listen to instrumental/classical music and read to draw my mind away from the TV set, today I listened to Psalm recordings. I would also like to add more Psalm singing but it's a little strange I must admit to try to sing by myself upstairs or whatnot without drawing the attention of my parents.
Once again I wish not to form a list of do's and don't's but rather improve my time spent worshipping the Lord. Enjoy this day of rest from the worship and sanctify it brethren!