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:
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