What is Our Standard?

When it comes right down to what we say our standard is, is it based on what we do or what we don't do?  I've always been big on "doing things."  I want something to do!  I don't serve G-d to earn my salvation, I'm not into works, Y'hshuwah paid the price for my sin.  I do serve G-d because that's what He created me to do and there is so much to be done!  I'm fortunate in that He spoke audibly to me and told me to "do what's not being done!"  I have a feeling, others have heard that same thing!  Now, if we all just figure out how to coordinate the effort, I think that's what our Creator will call unity.

As I've listened to people discuss various ideas of cooperatives and cooperation, we seem to all get stuck on one issue . . . Whose way will ultimately prevail.  I believe it should be The Way, since that is the Will of YHWH, but we continue to debate and discuss.  As the end of days continue to unfold, I think we're going to find the economy collapsing and perhaps with fewer amenities, we'll find fewer things about which to disagree.  Although I disagree with the "day begins at morning" folk, I have found myself strangely drawn to their discussions, for three reasons, I think.

First, I find myself pondering why anyone would want to use Scripture to spend less time focused on our Creator, so it's kind of like rubber necking at wreck.  That's been sort of a Christian tradition since it was determined, the New Testament rendered the Hebrew Scriptures [Old Testament] obsolete.  So now, people are coming back to the Hebrew Scriptures and looking for ways to spend less time with the Author.  I don't understand that line of thinking at all.

The next reason is much more self-serving, and really only occurred to me in this shorter daylight season.  If I were to "community up" with some of these "morning Sabbath keepers, I wouldn't have to play beat the clock on Preparation Day.  What I didn't get done, could still be finished up.  There's a term for that in traditional Judaism, but it seems rather inappropriate of me . . . 

The third and last reason I'm drawn is, in service to YHWH.  Genesis 1, every day of creation, speaks of evening and morning, a _____ Day.  Messiah is the Word.  Throughout history, humanity was agrarian, and until the invention of electricity and engines, all work ceased at dark, except through the harvest season, according to the book of Ruth.   Work animals were unyoked by evening.  

To create this new debate after coming to the 7th day Sabbath, is simply wrong.  For centuries after dark, humanity rested or participated in revelry.  With electricity and gasoline engines, have the doors of opportunity really opened or have we just chosen to "sanctify self" calling it new revelation and greater understanding?