The Nine Commandments.

I realise that this is outwith the scope of this blog, but today I bought Terry Johnson's The Family Worship Book (husbands/potential husbands this is a really good why and how of Family Worship - very much worth reading.) and read in it this and found it very challenging (emphasis mine):

'We are the first generation of American Protestants to have forgotten the benefits of the Sabbath command. Prior to the middle of this century, all American Protestant denominations, whether Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian were Sabbatarian. This was true for over 350 years, dating from the establishment of the Jamestown colony in 1607 until the mid-1960's. For generations it was understood that the Sabbath was made for man, for man's benefit (Mk 2: 27,28). But once again we have become too clever for our own good. We have crammed our schedules full of activity seven days a week. We have lost our Sabbath rest in the process. What have we given up? Hughes Old has recently written, "Any attempt at recovering a Reformed spirituality would do well carefully to study the best of the Puritan literature on the observance of the Lord's Day."'

Oh that we in Britain and America would realise that the Lord's Day is a precious gift from God, and not one to be brushed aside lightly. The Sabbath is no burden, but it is indeed a delight!