October 14: IT'S HIS DAY TO SHINE

I don’t care if it rains on Sunday, its going to be a sunny day. Whatever the weather forecaster reports on the late news, it will have been a sunny day for me.
It’s the Son’s Day! It’s His day to shine!
It was a “sonny day” when Jesus was baptized. The heavens opened and the voice of God declared: “this is my son, whom I love, with him I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:17) A “sonny day” always makes a “sunny day”.
You see, the idea of “Sunday” is the idea of a resting day, the seventh day, the seventh day of the Genesis Creation because God rested from his laboring. That’s why the early American Pilgrims enforced Sunday in the New World so everyone would rest and worship God. The resting they accepted, the enforced worship was another question.
But, the Resurrection changed that outlook for the Christians. When Jesus came alive out of the grave on Sunday, it automatically became the most important day on the calendar. Resurrection Day!
They could not believe their good fortune. Since their salvation was based on the Resurrection of Jesus, then the day of his resurrection became the “first day of the week”, the premier day of days.
They weren’t tired anymore. They didn’t want to rest, they wanted to “be about the father’s business” on Resurrection Day. Surely, they could go along with the Sabbath worship as was the custom and tradition of the first century. But Resurrection Day would be forever celebrated by Christians, regardless of how the government of their particular country viewed it.
Around the world on Sunday, many Christians will die for no other reason than their refusal to stop celebrating Resurrection Day. It will be a “Sonny Day”! “But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.” (1 Corinthians 15:20 NIV)

“God of all days, we are grateful for the special meaning that has
come to Sunday because that was the day Your Son resurrected. Amen”