Jon Collins

It's a cosmic participation in something bigger than us.

So there's an important statement about reality.

to say, I'm an image of God.

I'm called to discover the vocation that God has for me and that he's instilled within me to contribute in some way to the working of the world.

But our work is not ultimate.

It's not actually what has the final word about where this universe is going.

There's a purpose and a worker that transcends us all.

God's purpose.

That's what determines reality.

And so I can stop and just enjoy the good things that God's given me and not think that the universe rests on my labor.

So that was all in Exodus version.

Let's check out the Deuteronomy 5 version.

It's helpful to pull them up in parallel columns just so you can see them.

So here's the opening line of the fourth command in Deuteronomy 5.

Keep the day of Shabbat to treat it as holy just as Yahweh your Elohim has commanded you.

Yeah, to treat it as holy.

So that's a synonym, I suppose.

Remember, keep.

Remember the day of Shabbat, keep the day of Shabbat.

Yeah.