What Makes Sunday So Different?
Luke 6:1-4 - One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields,, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. Some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” Jesus answered them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?” He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”
The other day I overheard someone complaining about the local post office being closed on Sunday. The gentleman went onto to say, “What makes Sunday so different? Most businesses don’t shut down for the day, why should the postal service?”
His question remained in my mind. “What makes Sunday so different?”
The Lord, of course, told us from Mt. Sinai, “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy… For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth… but rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” (Exodus 20:8 & 11)
The Sabbath as a day of rest has always been something the Jewish culture has done without thinking twice. However, so many new rules and regulations were added that the Pharisees, in our reading, were attempting to use this to “catch” Jesus.
The point of a day of rest is not to sit and think up an elaborate list of “cans and cannots”, but to spend time in the house of God. Sundays are not just another day, as our world has managed to turn it into, but a day the Lord blesses us with to grow in His Word.
That’s what makes Sunday so different.
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT: How does being a Christian make EVERY day different? How does it make every day the same?
PRAYER SUGGESTIONS: Thank God for blessing us with a special day to gather around his Word as his body of believers. Ask God to give you thankfulness at every opportunity to learna and grow from his Word, and for forgiveness for the times we have despised the opportunity by treating other things more importantly.