Leviticus 23:1

Leviticus 23:1 says. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  Verse two adds, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.  Moses was to remind the people of Israel that when they observed the feasts, they were God's feasts.  When we get together today to observe a time set aside for God, we need to remember that it is Him that we are worshipping.  We should never gather in God's name and not keep Him first and foremost in our thoughts and hearts.  I believe it is possible to be more concerned with gathering together than it is to be concerned about worshipping God.  Verse three continues, Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.  First, the people of Israel were reminded to keep the sabbath day holy and that there was to be no work in all their dwellings.  We today set aside the first day of the week as the Lord's Day, or our sabbath, but do we really keep the day holy?  This is to be a day of rest dedicated to God, and not just a day where part of it is dedicated to God.  Verse four declares, These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.  There were certain other days that were to be set aside for the worship of God in addition to the sabbath.  We today celebrate Christmas and Easter as special days in our worship of God, but how much do we keep the focus on Him and not on the things of the world?  Verse five adds, In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.  The next day set aside was the Passover, a once-a-year celebration of what God had done for the people of Israel when He brought them out of the bondage of Egypt when He passed over them when the babies of Egypt were killed.  Verse six continues, And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.  The next day, and for a week, the people were to celebrate the feast of unleavened bread.  Verse seven says, In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.  The first day was to be treated as the sabbath was, with no unnecessary work being done.  Then verse eight adds, But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.  Then. the last day, the seventh day, was once again to be treated as the sabbath was.  The days in between were not as restricted, and this was not just a time of vacation for the people.  Matthew Henry says that these were days to be spent meditating praying and praising God.  We need to spend our time that we say is set aside for God the same way.