What possible difference can it make when one decides to worship God, to cease work and to come together with other believers to learn and be instructed in the truths of God from the holy scriptures? If one is on a deserted island with a handful of others, none having a job dictating the hours of their activity, what is the difference between Saturday and Sunday. Nothing closes down on those days as there is nothing to close down. But on that island the man does have a calendar with him and a new watch with a battery that will keep his watch, which happens to be a calendar watch, operating for at least another year or two. The island is rather large with several kinds of trees, many of them producing fruit trees. He has with him many carpenter tools and is an expert carpenter and farmer. He also has with him a trunk full of various seeds and seed plants that will produce many edible vegetables. When his calendar watch reveals to him that the very next day is God’s sabbath day, does God really expect him to cease working and to meditate on the things of God during those subsequent 24 hours? (Let’s say he also has a Bible with him). And does God really care whether he ceases work on the seventh day of the week or on the first day of the week, Sunday? What possible difference could it make? Could he not even select Monday, or Wednesday or some other day as the day he will rest and commune with his Creator? Let’s say the few others with him agree to abide by whatever decision he makes in this matter.
In my next posting (What Does Time Have To Do With Anything – Part 2), I will give you GOD’S ANSWER to that honest and most reasonable question. And you may be a little bit surprised.
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley