In that case the believer, free from the obligations, duties and environment in a godless world will feel on the Lord's day like a bird let loose, free to soar into God's brisk, healthy spiritual atmosphere, where he can enjoy and taste the precious things of Christ to the full. When the plea is made, in order to excuse pleasure of recreation on the Lord's day, that every man should be free to act as he pleases-should be allowed to be fully persuaded in his own mind, one is welcome to that. My personal opinion is that the only way in which a true believer in Jesus can be fully persuaded that it is right to spend part of the Lord's day in self-pleasing is to be in a poor spiritual state of soul. I am afraid the conscience of such believers needs regulating by the skill of the Holy Spirit. We all know that the world today has gone berserk.
All moral values seem to have disappeared.
It seems to me this calls upon us Christians to go out of our way to specially honor His day, which the world today totally ignores and despises. Men won't be able to help noticing our reverence for God when we set this day apart for Himself alone. I know that, as things are today, many believers are forced to work on the Lord's day. But we who don't have to work on that day may we value the high and holy privilege John had of turning around on the Lord's day and beholding the glorious Person of our blessed Lord, as we worship and serve Him that day. I esteem the first day of the week the Lord's day-above all the other days of the week.