There are three things the Lord requires of us:
1. To keep ourselves unspotted from the world.
- He expects us to avoid such worldly distractions of businesses and recreational facilities on the Sabbath day.
- He desires us to dress appropriately.
- We acknowledge that all of us make mistakes.
- Elder Melvin J. Ballard has suggested, "We want every Latter-day Saint to come to the sacrament table because it is the place for self-investigation, for self-inspection, where we may learn to rectify our course and to make right our own lives, bringing ourselves into harmony with the teachings of the Church and with our brethren and sister."
- "Sometimes we think of resting from our labors as merely letting the hay baler stand idle in the field or putting a Closed sign on the business door. Yet in today's world, labor includes the everyday work of our lives. This could mean business activities we may accomplish from home, athletic competitions, and other pursuits that take us away from Sabbath day worship and the opportunity to minister to others."
"When Sunday morning arrives, help [your children] be well rested, properly dressed, and spiritually prepared to partake of the emblems of the sacrament and receive the enlightening, edifying, ennobling power of the Holy Ghost. Let your family be filled with love as you honor the Sabbath all day long and experience its spiritual blessings throughout the week."
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