The Lords Day

Genesis 1:5 ... and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Take a closer look in this verse. Did you notice something? This verse was taken from the book of Genesis, Chapter One, which tells the story of Creation, the way the Lord made the universe. Try to look at this succeeding verses: Genesis 1:8, 13,19,23,31.
When does a day starts? Most of us commonly believes that a day starts in the morning, and ends in the evening. But the Bible clearly stated in these verses, THE EVENING AND THE MORNING - this is the Lords day, as clearly stated in the verses. And the Lord gave us this day.
I dont know actually if I can be able to express what I really want to express in this note. But I just wanna give it a try, hoping that at least I can be able to have the message clear.

1. Evening, and the morning = waiting and the reward
Consider this situation.
A Christian girl and a Christian guy likes each other. They only see each other during Sundays and midweek services. They can talk to each other casually, with the prescence of the church people. Everything is not enough for them. As if they want to be in each others arms every minute of the day. They ended up texting and calling each other without the knowlege of the authorized people in the church. (Well, just seeing the face of the one you like in just a second is already more than a morning, how much more hearing his or her voice over the phone?) Then they already cannot control theirselves, and they wanted that morning, they started meeting up each other for a date.
Now theyre together. They like each other. Its a morning for them, a bright sunny morning. All they want to do is to consume the morning, not thinking that the sun is going down and evening is coming..
To cut the long story short, something bad happened. Then comes regrets... Here comes evening...after that morning. The sad part there is, the evening part will not just be suffered by themselves, but their upcoming generations to come.

The feeling of missing somebody, together with sleepless nights and cannot eat moments, the feeling of discontentment during the times that they will say goodbye to each other every after service, the feeling of emptiness when they were not able to talk to each other every meeting, and the secret glancing, staring, etc. - the EVENING part of it. If they have been patient enough to go on to that evening, and had temperance and self control, morning will come later, in the Lord`s day.

2. Evening comes first before the morning.
Look at the verses again. Gen.1:5... and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Take a look at some of the people who are driving their own cars right now. Try to ask them what they did before they were able to drive a car. Some of them will say, they were just riding bicycles, walking, or running after the bus, before. Try to ask some of the parents we have in church. They will tell you that years ago, they`re just walking five kilometres barefooted in a muddy road going to school-yet look where are they now, they are in Canada, and able to give us the convenient life they never had before.
Those old people who are enjoying their retirement plans and benefits, ask them and you will find out how they worked hard before.
Those successful leaders we have, try to at least have a peek on their biographies, and you will find out, that before they became leaders, they were once followers.
Here`s the point. Imagine these people, if they hadnt been patient enough to go on despite of the circumstances (which is the evening), do you think they are in the place where they are right now? (the morning.) I believe that when theyre suffering that evening in their lives, they kept the faith, and went on.
They patiently worked, and waited for that morning to come.
And when that evening was done, the morning came. ..the evening, and the morning, were the first day.
I remember my Tito and Tita`s story from the time they first came here in Canada, until to this day. It has been really hard for them to start and go on with their lives in this strange, very cold country. I cannot actually describe how it is, but I can say that it hasnt been that easy for them. That time, it was their evening. Through faith, they faced that evening, and patiently waited for the morning. Here they are right now, in their morning, being happy in their service to the Lord, and were able to raise two kids that fears God. See, when the morning came, it worth a lot more than they suffered before. Thanks the Lord for them who kept the faith.
Things are enevitable to happen. There were trials that came their way. Imagine if Tito and Tita didnt stood up during the evenings in their lives, will they be still enjoying their morning together with their two sons right now?

3. Evening, and the morning, is irreversible. The outcome will result on how we consumed our day.
One churchmate, has been into drugs before he got saved. He preaches sometimes at church and he always site himself as an example to us young people. In his example, he has been on drugs during his younger years. He wanted morning (and is is more than morning, because people who use drugs says they found heaven). He has been saved, now serving the Lord, but still, he was not able to escape the other part of his day, -his evening. Why did I say that it`s evening, he has been saved, and got things straight, right? Well, in other aspect of his life, he is blessed with a Christian wife and children. Yet, he`s already in the evening part of his day because the long term effect of the drugs in his brain is irreversible. He cannot anymore go back to the brain he had when he didnt start using drugs yet. He himself admitted that in some way, it is still affecting some aspects of his life. .. the evening and the morning were the first day.

Young people, come on. Have the morning. Do what you want. Go where you want to go. Enjoy your youth. Go on parties, try on drugs. Drop out of school. Go join a fraternity out there and involve in sorority fights and initiation. Dont think of the future. Just think about yourself. Consume your morning according to your flesh. But dont blame anybody else when your morning is consumed already, and the evening comes. When the evening comes, that will be the only thing that is left, because the morning has been consumed. You cannot take it back anymore. Even youll cry more than a liter of tears, the morning will not be coming back. You maybe able to move on, you may be able to start another life, but then, you cannot escape the reality that you will suffer as a cost of what you did. There is no regret in the beginning, it always comes after.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice , O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

4.The Reward of the Lord`s Day
I thank God for those parents who has been patient enough to wait on the Lord`s day long time ago. I can see a lot of young people who is enjoying the morning the Lord has brought into their parents lives. Yet, young people should be careful. What you have right now, is the morning of your parents. You will be having your own day too, and it will be always composed of an evening and a morning.
I cannot think anymore of other words on how to explain my point. I hope at least I was able to have the message clear. I just want to close this with a conclusion:
No matter where we are right now in our lives, whether we are in our evening or our morning, it actually doesnt matter. What matters most is how we consume it.


-Ladies may not have given the ability or the right to preach, but I guess, they have the right to share and speak up what they learned. The ideas in this note are from the preachings I heard before, tried to put together and I was able to come up with this.
Thanks a lot for reading.
-To the Lord all be the Glory.