Day 8 - The First Day of the Week
As you begin this new day, remember that it’s a special day. Today is the Lord’s Day—Sunday, the first day of the week. The followers of Jesus began worshiping on Sundays (instead of the Saturday Sabbath) after the resurrection as a way of commemorating and celebrating the fact that Jesus was and is alive! Nowhere in the New Testament are the believers ever corrected or rebuked for not gathering on the Saturday Sabbath as commanded in the Ten Commandments. Jesus’ resurrection changed everything, including the accepted day of worship for God’s people.
The Lord’s Day should have a special place in the hearts of all believers. Although our busy and hectic lives scatter us throughout the county, Richmond and different parts of the country during the work week, Sunday worship gives us an opportunity to gather together in the Lord’s House to exalt the Lord’s Name! When we come to the Lord’s House, we–the scattered community, become the “gathered community†experiencing the Spirit of God at work in us, through us, and among us.
The Psalmist declared, “I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the LORD.’” (Ps. 122:1)
Today’s Scripture Promise: “Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of His coming back again is drawing near.†(Hebrews 10:24, 25—New Living Translation)