The Seventh Day
"Remember to dedicate the Sabbath day: You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work-you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates. For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy." (Exodus 20:8-11 NLT)

And so, we set aside Sunday to go to church, to praise and worship God. Most of us grew up understanding this concept whether we went to church every week or our family considered itself to be of one or another of a long list of religions. Some were Baptist, some Congregationalists. Others were Catholics or Lutherans or Episcopalians or even Jewish, or one of hundreds of other names. Day seven was key to meeting our obligation to God.

We did our thing all week long, but on Sunday we turned into the person we knew our tradition expected. We dressed in our Sunday best and off to church we went. For some this may have been a Saturday experience, but it was once a week, every week. As time went on, some fell out of step with tradition. They began to make an appearance only on special days like Christmas or Easter.

Then we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior. We became born again; a new creature, alien to our old life. Yet, most of us remained seventh day people. We continued to do our thing during the first six days, put on our Sunday best, and head to church to be the best person we could in our traditional ways.

I am sure God likes our seventh day worship. He enjoys every time we worship Him for He made us to worship Him. But there is more…

He wants seven day Christians. We are to praise and worship Him all seven days, not just on Sunday. We are to put on our Sunday best in attitude all week long. Everywhere our feet tread we will not be alone. Our relationship with Him is a 24x7 affair. The Holy Spirit is always at our side ready to give us direction, ready to comfort us in our trials and encourage us through all situations.

A Sunday relationship is good and I am not suggesting giving it up. It is a time we gather with others and share testimony of how we obeyed Him and how He has worked in our lives since the previous Sunday. It is time to share in corporate praise and worship. This might be two or three gathering in a home or hundreds or even thousands in a large church building. Whether two or three or thousands, it is His church worshiping Him.

Let’s be seven day Christians every week.