The Beauty of Holiness

Please note I have added a new feature to Charlotte in the morning. A Bible Lotto which is a Bible trivia. Take and look and enjoy.

The question has been posed: Wasn't it mortal men who "changed" the Sabbath to Sunday? Perhaps we should stop shopping/working on Saturday?

Things have really changed today since even 50 years ago.

My mother had her sewing machine up all week, she cooked three meals a day, starting at 6 o'clock in the morning, washed on Monday, ironed on Tuesday, cleaned her house in the morning, took a bath and put on a clean dress to sit on the front porch and talked to her neighbors in the afternoon, cooked supper, and waited for my dad to come home from work.

On Saturday night, she put away her machine and all the rest to prepare for Sunday.

We had clothes we only wore on Sunday. We had shoes we only wore on Sunday. She cooked one big meal which was usually roast beef with potatoes, onion, and carrots fixed in the pressure cooker or fried chicken and mashed potatoes. We ate in the dining room with napkins and all. That was the day I had to wash the dishes. She read the paper.

No stores were open on Sunday - just the picture show which was a fifty-cent day because they showed the better movies on Sunday. One I remember was Mitzi Gayner in Bloodhounds of Broadway - lots of dancing and singing. My friend, Jane, always went to the Sunday movie. Mother didn't allow me to go the Sunday movie except every once in a while if there was something really wonderful on, she would let me go. Fifty cents was a lot of money to pay for a movie. She kept her change in her sewing machine drawer. I usually went on Saturday to the western double feature with a serial western and a carton for twenty-five cents. Every kid in town was there except Jane.

Then stores begin to open on Sunday and people started to shop on Sunday. That's when they passed the Blue Law that there were only certain types of businesses that could be open on Sunday. It was like that for several years, but somewhere along the years that Blue Law was over passed, because now a days any and all businesses are open on Sunday.

We think nothing of going out to eat on Sunday where someone else is working and preparing our meal and washing the dishes for us. We think nothing of running to WallyWorld for something we just can't live without. Sometimes we have to do our grocery shopping on Sunday when we have run out of time on other days and there is nothing wrong with that.

In the scripture it says this in Isaiah 58:13-14
If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing you own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, not speaking you own words; then shall you delight in the Lord; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

Dake's note on this is 'It must be remembered that Jews are addressed here, not the church.'

Jesus came to fulfill the law. Jesus was the first to do the necessary things and do away with the strictness of the sabbath. But, in my opinion God never changes, and if we do take to heart this scripture and honor His day and reserve it for doing only things of God and resting from our labor, is it gonna kill us? It might in this day.

Try it! I have and you would be surprised at the things we do that is contrary to this scripture. No television for one day! No WallyWorld for one day! No eating out for one day! Dressing up for God on that one day!


I can hear it now HAVE YOU GONE NUTS!!!!!!!

It doesn't matter what day you observe as the sabbath - Colossians 2:14-16 says Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us (the complete law which included observing the sabbath) and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days; which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Dakes's note on this is 'Since it is out of our way, let us not stumble over it again. Keep it out of our way.'

Does this mean we can just do what we want to do?

God never changes. If we reverence a day to be holy unto Him, I believe like this first scripture says. We are not condemned if we don't do it right but God says:

If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing you own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, not speaking you own words; then shall you delight in the Lord; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

I believe it would please God to no end if we would stop what we are doing and honor Him on one whole day of the week. I believe that He would cause us to ride upon the high places of the earth in the beauty of holiness not because we have done anything outstanding but because we have honored Him with our actions.

What do you think? Leave your comments.

Have a good day this Monday!

Charlotte