If your birthday is today, you've had one fourth as many as the rest of us. That's your reward for the fact that earth orbits the sun 365.242 days. It's not your fault. The odds of being born on leap day is 1 in 1,461, which means there are more than 4.5 million leap-day babies on earth. Happy birthday!
How would you like to have been a Roman in 46 B.C? That's the year that their astronomers figured out their calendar was way off. So to correct decades of drift they made that year keep lasting and lasting and lasting for 445 days.
Do you think God would like to add a day to His calendar? He has, hasn't he? An extra day every week, "extra" simply because He could have made the earth week six days long. Genesis 1 declares that His physical creation was completed in six days. But because the Creator and His creation are not only physical, but are truly social and spiritual, God added an "extra" day to the six days and called it the birthday of the world. We still remember it as His Sabbath, from the Hebrew Shabbat, which means "to cease, to rest." Can you think of a more perfect day in which to rest in friendship with Jesus?
"'Come unto Me' is His invitation. Whatever you anxieties and trials, spread out your case before the Lord. Your spirit will be brace for endurance. The way will be opened for you to disentangle yourself from embarrassment and difficulty. The weaker and more helpless you know yourself o be, the stronger all you become in His strength. The heavier you burdens, the more blessed the rest in casting them upon the Burden Bearer." (The Desire of Ages, p. 329).
With a promise like that why wait for God's "extra" day? Celebrate His rest right now!
(Adapted from The Chosen: God's Dream for You, "February 29: An Extra Day With God," by Dwight K. Nelson)
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