When we really look into the reasons people were led away from the Lord to Baal and other gods, we can see the same pull in our own culture. When it gets down to it, it's the pull to be like everyone else, to not look like a fool by living by a different set of concepts of success and how to get there that everyone else has. Baal was a god of rain and fertility, and, to the people of the region, to refuse to worship Baal was to deny "the latest in agricultural science" and doom yourself to no crops, animals that don't successfully bear their young, and a barren wife. Baal worship was designed to take the mystery and uncertainty out of agricultural life and put success in their own hands.
The American Dream promises that life is what we make of it--that success if within our grasp if we just work hard enough. And the world pushes us to work or be available all day, every day. But God has put a tool in our hands that says, "Success is not in your hands; it's in Mine. But you can trust Me if you let Me show you." This tool is called the Sabbath.
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