“1 You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you are not to do any daily work. This will be a day of joyful shouting for you. 2 Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old — all unblemished — 3 with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram, 4 and two quarts with each of the seven male lambs. 5 Also offer one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves. 6 These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.”
Numbers 29:1-6
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There’s not a lot of room for the sacred in our culture. We like to keep things moving, keep things rolling and we like to keep everything on a pretty level playing field. We like to hold things as being of equal importance, equal investment, so that we don’t feel bad if our priorities get shuffled around and rearranged.

If we can keep God on the same level as school/work or sports or a hobby, then we can feel like we haven’t done anything major if we miss out on our time with Him one day or weekend. We give Him priority, sure, but no different than we would afford to anything else we view an ‘extra’ in life. Big game on television? God can take the backseat, and we skip church. Lots to do on your schedule? Just acknowledge God as you listen to a little Christian music while you drive around, and tell yourself that you had ‘church’ because you thought about Him a little. We make excuses like this all the time. “I’m tired. I had a lot to do yesterday.” or “This is my only morning to sleep in.” or some such nonsense that we use to push down the feelings of guilt or conviction.

By eliminating the sacred, there is no need to feel guilty. By relegating God to the same level as a hobby, then we can do whatever we want. And so we subjugate God to our whims and wills rather than being accountable for even a moment, and being forced to consider ourselves and evaluate what we actually believe over what we say we believe. The proof is in the pudding, as it were. We must acknowledge the sacred, we must give God proper due, respect and honor. We cannot make Him like some created thing. That leads to the tragedy of Romans 1:

“24 Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.”

We must treat the Holy as holy and the Sacred as sacred. It cannot be base, ‘normal’ or ‘regular’ and still be holy. Museum pieces belong in museums, shoes belong on feet, and God belongs on His throne. He does not cater to us, we bow to Him. As we GoLove others in the Name of Christ, we must hold it up, respecting His Lordship and submitting to His reign.