Why I Do Not Engage in Sports or Pleasure on Sundays
By
Pastor Clarence William Page
God gives me seven days every week. He normally lets me use them as I see fit. If He can give me seven days every week, seven free days (I do not pay Him for them), the very least I can do is dedicate one of those days exclusively to things that pertain to Him. In my view, to do otherwise would make me covetous beyond compare (not to mention ungrateful). How is it that He gives me so much (free, absolutely free!) and I give Him nothing, not even one of His days out of every seven of HIS days? I am not that stupid, foolish and ungrateful.
In the Holy Bible, Isaiah Chapter 58 tells us what God thinks of those who do their pleasures on His holy day:
Isaiah Chapter 58
Cry aloud, and spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins.2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee: the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If thou turn away they foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. (Isaiah 58:1-14) The Holy Bible
I want to dedicate to Almighty God one day out of seven days. I am not so selfish and unGodly as to deny my maker one day out of every seven, one day dedicated exclusively to the things of God.
I have read Romans Chapter 14 and I encourage you to read it. May the perfect Will of God be done.
Abraham believed God and obeyed Him. Jesus Christ believed God and fully obeyed Him. Those who believe God will obey God. I believe God.
8 Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. (Psalm 33:8) The Holy Bible
Copyright © 2008 Clarence William Page