A Kosher Refrigerator

My husband was changing the filter in our ice maker on our refrigerator. We had never read the directions on it before today. We found out that we have a Kosher Frig.

One of the directions says this;

"The Sabbath Mode is a feature that disables portions of the refrigerator and its controls for both "Wave-Touch" and "IQ Touch", in accordance with observance of the weekly Sabbath and religious holidays within the Orthodox Jewish community."

How is that for legalism, concerning working on the Sabbath? The refrigerator is only allowed to work what is needed, any luxuries can be turned off on the Sabbath.

Can anyone tell me what a refrigerator has to do with the Sabbath? If part of the refrigerator is allowed to run to keep the food cold, then why not the luxury parts of the refrigerator such as the ice maker?

I thought the command to rest on the Sabbath is a command for people not to work, I didn't know it mandated inanimate objects to shut down.

I figured it out, the lights can not be pushed on the Sabbath because it is work to push buttons. I never considered it work to push a button or walk across the room to pick up a toy.

I believe that God made His commandments about the Sabbath to give a person rest from the labor that earned him money and the everyday tasks that made us tired from the hard work.

It is interesting that man always tries to go beyond the commands of God, adding extra burdens to that were not there. If the Jews just obeyed the command to rest from their work, not doing their own pleasure, that would have been enough to give them a very good rest. There was no need to add all these extraneous burdensome rules that makes us all crazy trying to remember them.

This is also the reason man tries to make salvation so complicated when it is as simple as it can be. Christ did it all on the cross, no need to add anything to it, it is a done deal and from that point on, He does all the work. Did we get this.......He does all the work in us.

Ephesians 2:10 "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."

No need to wring our hands worrying if we are doing all the right things or enough of the right things. We can trust Christ Who lives in us to redirect us when we become off track and we can trust Him to grow us which ever way is needed through to the end of our lives.

Ephesians 4:30 "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."