Sabbath Sanctification the Spiritual Infusion.

 The time has come for my weekly infusion. This infusion sustains my life. The infusion I take weekly is administered for a full 24 hours. An entire day. I have to stop all I'm doing that keeps me from receiving the infusion. I can't work, I can't go about with my typical past times. I have to alter my day to day life routine in order to get this infusion. You may think I'm lying or trying to mislead you with all this talk of infusions. I'm not reclining in a chair in a clinic setting, or a hospital, or any such thing. I'm not waiting for a bag of liquid drugs to be hooked up to an iv in my arm. I'm not battling any physical disease with this infusion, and I know several people who do this- they go to infusion clinics some go weekly, others twice a week and still others only monthly- their treatment varies for their personal life threatening ailments they are battling. I have nothing but the greatest respect for these people and all people like them- getting drug infusions can be life-saving, or life-prolonging, all very necessary as we as people struggle to keep the life we've been given. 

My weekly infusion is a SPIRITUAL infusion and it does sustain my spiritual life. My weekly infusion is a full 24 hour infusion where I have to set aside my day to day weekly routines. I have to stop what I normally would do on every other day, and instead of doing what I normally do, I have to connect to the spiritual - which is a very real world all around us. Recognizing first and foremost that my spiritual world exists by the power of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. This recognition is through faith, something every human being is given a measure of, what they do with that measure of faith they are given is completely up to them.  

Faith has me believing what I cannot see. I believe in the invisible, the untouchable. How do I know that the Spiritual realm exists when I can't see it or touch it? I know it exists because I exist because of that Spiritual force of creation.  I know it exists because to not believe it exists means this eternal longing in me for a world, a life without pain in all its many forms, is without any merit at all, and shouldn't exist at all. This longing is a desperate hope that makes me know the life we now live is not anything like the life we were created to live. We were not meant for the agonies we live with and through, and watch others live - with and through. There is an innate wrongness to ALL the agonies of life. Knowing this isn't how it was supposed to be for us makes me know that it isn't how it will always be for us. This is a temporary existence we live now. You know, and I know it, we all know that we are born and eventually we die- that is a temporary existence.

My Creator did not leave me to wonder aimlessly about all this, He gave me answers to many of my questions. He gave me every answer I need in order to know that there is an eternal existence that awaits me- even though I cannot see or touch it right now. That life I know we were truly created for, awaits us. This is faith.  The answers are plentiful and detailed and even though there are mysteries that remain. I have enough answers to give me hope.

Weekly I have the opportunity, the blessing, to be infused with Spiritual renewal. Weekly I recognize my life must be wholly submitted to God. One day in every seven I am to give my life to God for His purposes. Ceasing from self, just for one day and not ceasing from self through my own power but through the Spiritual power of God, it's through Him alone I can keep His weekly rest.

The power comes wholly from God, my part is to believe. 

I know that God told us that He's set aside a weekly Sabbath on the seventh day of the week. A day of remembrance of Him and all His wondrous glory. Creation, redemption all of it is there for us to submerge our spiritual selves into by yielding this time to recognize God. 

God's amazing creative power made His last creation week act that of creating this day of Sabbath rest. 

I need my spiritual infusion every week of my life, it is a sign between me and God.

Eze_20:12  Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.

I can't sanctify myself, I can't make myself holy I do not have that power- but God can do so, God has that power.  Sabbath sanctification the spiritual infusion. I choose to let God live in my life.  All by His grace, His mercy, His love, all through Jesus Christ's sacrifice, now and forever, amen.