The Lord’s Day
Beginning: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days you shall work, but the seventh is the Sabbath.
In it you shall do no work, for it is the Lord’s day,
And He sanctified it, to spend the day with you.
Verse 1: When God gave us a Sabbath rest, He did it for our very best –
Not to be a burden for a weary soul to bear.
He made that day for our own good. If we would spend it as we should,
We would know the blessing in spending the day with Him.
Verse 2: When God had finished all His work, and making man upon this earth,
He was our Creator, and He loved the man He made.
He rested on that seventh day. ‘Twas the foundation that He laid,
To establish in our hearts our loving Creator’s part.
Verse 3: Throughout each age there have been some
Who kept the precepts of the One
Whom they chose as Leader, as their life, their all in all.
From year to year and age to age, we know our Lord will never change.
He’s the way, the truth, the life; we can now in Him abide.
Verse 4: But slowly we forgot His day, absorbed in all our work and play,
And forgot our Maker. But He still remembered us.
And now He calls to you and me to lay our burdens at His feet.
Will you hear His loving call, "Come and spend the day with Me?"
Bridge: The day of rest is the final test. You must choose the truth or the lie.
But if it’s God you choose, you have nothing to lose,
For God’s truth will never die – no, the truth can never die.
Ending: Jesus, help me be like You in mind and character.
Lord, I must walk with You now, then I may be Yours forever.
Lord, prepare Your people. Lord, our hearts and minds renew.
Then, forever, we will spend the eternal day with You.
