Sabbath to be a day of rest and to be meant for religious duties was a view of the Priestly tradition. Jesus, following the Deuteronomic tradition, understood Sabbath as the experience of being set free. Untying and freeing of yoke were also suggested by prophets as part of true meaning of fasting.
We are in fact afraid of freedom. Though unknowingly we like to be under bondages. We enjoy the safety of such bondages and give noble and pious forms to them. Then they become sacred and unquestionable. One of such favoured burden is a guilty conscience and guilt culture we live in. We cannot hold hope when protected by guilt and fear, and it explains how we fail in our true Christian living.
“The spirit you received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into your lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out, ‘Abba, Father!’”
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