The Bible Column - I Want Sunday For Myself (Part 2)

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God…” Exodus 20:8-10a
This Old Testament verse contains a principle that is applicable to the Lord’s Day in the New Testament. Those believers who set aside Sunday for the worship of the Lord will find and know an inner peace in doing what the Lord desires of each one.
Please consider the second segment of “I Want Sunday For Myself”.
If there is an institution which opposes itself to the progress of human degeneracy, and throws a shield before the interest of moral virtue in our thoughtless and wayward world, it is the Lord’s Day. In the fearful struggle between virtue and vice, notwithstanding the powerful auxiliaries which wickedness finds in the bosoms of men, and in the seductions and influence of popular example, whenever Sunday has been suffered to live, the trembling interests of moral virtue have been revered and sustained.
We may not, at once, perceive the effects which this weekly observance produces. Like most moral causes, it operates slowly; but it operates surely, and gradually weakens the power and breaks the yoke of sin. No villain regards the Lord’s Day. No vicious family regards the Lord’s Day. The holy rest of this ever-memorable day is a barrier which is always broken down before men become giants in sin. Blackstone, in his commentaries of the laws of England, remarks that ‘a corruption of morals usually follows a profanation of Sunday.’ It is an observation of Lord Chief Justice Hale, that of all the persons who were convicted of capital crimes, while he was on the bench, he found a few only who would not confess that they began their career of wickedness by a neglect of the duties of the Lord’s Day and vicious conduct on that day.
May the Lord have his way in your heart today!