One day my friend asked me, "Why worship the Lord on Sunday?
After creating all things, He rested and sanctified the
seventh day!
Sunday is not the last day, but the first day of the week,"
he said.
"Saturday is the seventh day. So why worship on Sunday
instead?"
"That’s a good question," I thought. "I’m not really sure," I
replied.
"Does it have something to do with when the Lord was
crucified?"
"No," he said. "The Lord was crucified on Friday. Of that we
all know,
but I’ve asked numerous people this question. I’ve no where
else to go!"
I’d never thought about it before. I guess I’d always taken
it for granted.
So I said, "That’s just the way things are or the way the
Lord planned it.
"That’s not right," he said. "Look at the calendar and you
will see
that Saturday is at the end of the week! Right where it ought
to be!"
"And just how do you know Saturday is the end of the week?" I
sighed.
"Because it says right here on the calendar!" He smirkingly
replied.
"Yes, but that’s man’s calendar," I said. "Does He use the
same one?
Or is His calendar different? Just as many other things He
has done.
He has created worlds without number. The universe, full of
His best
and unless ours was the first He created, He’d already have a
day of rest.
For Saturday to be His seventh day, He’d had to of begun on
Sunday.
But if Sunday was His day of rest, He’d have begun His work
on Monday."
How it is, we know not. But we know the gateway to eternity
was perfected
on that very special Sunday; the day our Lord and Savior was
resurrected.
I suppose many days could be chosen, as some choose Friday or
Saturday.
Why not choose the day He was resurrected, that great and
glorious Sunday.
"Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came
unto
the sepulchre...and they found the stone rolled away...And they entered in,
and found
not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much
perplexed
thereabout, behold two men stood by them in shining garments...And they said
unto them,
Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen..." Luke
24: 1-6
Officer Samuel Jeppsen #3751 (Ret) R# 140, September, 2001-d
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