Jen Wilkin invites readers to rediscover the Ten Commandments-ten words often misunderstood, forgotten, or ignored-and helps believers delight in the life-giving wisdom they hold for all whom Christ has set free. The people of God reflect him when they observe rest after labor, both by partaking of it themselves and by providing it to others. Remember, says the fourth word, that the story of God’s creative act concludes with rest. The practice of remembering the Sabbath requires Israel (and us) to remember what God has ordained for his children from the earliest moments of human existence: a pattern of work followed by rest, as set forth in the creation account of Genesis 1 and 2. Instead of appealing to their recent identity as slaves, God appeals this time to their basic identity as image-bearers. In the fourth commandment, God reminds Israel that he is her Creator. In the preamble to the Ten Commandments, God reminds Israel that he is her deliverer. In the fourth word, the concept of remembering is introduced again, and this time explicitly so: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” But this time the charge is to recall an ancient memory instead of a recent one. He reminded them of his mighty delivering arm just fifty days earlier. In the opening lines of the Ten Words, God prompted his people to an act of recall: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt” (Ex.
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