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The Lord's Day

Calling the first day of the week the Lord's Day is quite Biblical.  When John received his vision of things to come while exiled on Patmos, he spoke of it happening on the Lord's Day (revelation 1:10).  Such a strong identification of the first day of the week with the Lord was due to it being the day Jesus rose from the dead, when His death was to be remembered in the Lord's Supper (1 Corinthians 11:20).  No wonder the Hebrew writer exhorted those brethren wavering in their faith not to forsake assembling together (Hebrews 10:25), as some had fallen in the habit of doing.

If we can rightly speak of the first day of the week as the Lord's Day, I often wonder what He thinks of those who take it so lightly, who make it someone, or something else's day?  For example, for some it is the Bed's Day, as sleeping in is what gets priority on that day.  For others, it may be the Lake's day, as they spend it in recreation.  How about the Yard's day, or the Laundry Day or the Hunting Day?  Or maybe even perhaps, Hang-over day, as some use it to recover from the previous night's events.

Why do we trivialize what God has considered important enough to call His?  Of course, every day belongs to God, and every day should be offered to His glory and honor.  After all, we are to be living sacrifices (Romans 12:1).  However, assembling together to worship God and remember Jesus' death is obviously important to God, and should be important to us.  Why then do we take it so lightly?  Why do we choose this day over every other day to do things that could be done at some other time, things that could wait?  Does assembling together with brothers and sisters in Christ in God's presence to worship Him, mean so little anymore?  And, if we find it difficult to do this, are we taking seriously our commitment to daily Christian living?  I find it hard to believe one who can so easily dismiss honoring the Lord's sacrifice for other pursuits, is taking seriously God's will for the other aspects of their lives.  Not only this, but are worldly things so important to us that we can't take the full time to worship God and encourage each other without leaving before services have ended.  It's much too important to get to our favorite eating place than to hear God's Word proclaimed see if someone will be added to the body of Christ, or restored to faithfulness, or greet visitors looking for a church home.  Such attitudes don't reveal worship offended from the heart, one that is in "spirit and truth" (John 4:24). 

Think of your attitude and response to the Lord's Day and ask yourself, "just whose day really is it?"

 

Robert Johnson

Crosbyton Church of Christ


 
 
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