A lack of people or a lack of will?

 I grew up in a time when we had what was called "blue laws". Sundays you could only buy a certain alcohol 3.2 percent alcohol content if I remember correctly (I was 12 so I might not remember), which was basically beer no hard stuff.

Stores and business closed all day Sunday in Observation of the sabbath. Why did that change? was it just to hard to prepare on Saturday for Sunday? Are we not capable of planning ahead 1 day?

I was struck by the thought that prohibition was enacted by the will of the people and then repealed again by the will of the people.

Black Friday came into existence and has slowly crept into early evening on Thanksgiving, so instead of a family day we have more shopping hours. Would this happen if no one showed up to shop?

The Nation of America still pretty much shuts down for Easter and Christmas but not like it used to when everyone went to church whether they believed or not. They went because it was what we did. It was the Will of the people.

So the blue laws, Prohibition all changed because of the will of the people.

That's the interesting part here the people.

We complain today that the world never slows down, people never stop to smell the roses, yet are we not the people? Do we not have a will that can be enacted?

Exo 20:8  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 

Exo 20:9  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 

Exo 20:10  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 

God laid out a plan for the benefit of man, to work 6 days but the 7th was to be a day of rest. Yet we have turned it into one of the biggest restaurant days of the week. Why? 

We have taken God's great example and we have it allowed to be cast aside. By keeping everyone on the go 7 days a week there is no time to think and reflect on God.

You say " but I do take my days off." ok, well bully for you. But does that allow for the Nation to collectively remember the Sabbath Day? Does that allow the people to fully remember and observe the great gift God has given?

Jesus rose on the first day of the Week, yes we commemorate Easter - Resurrection Day, but there is a first day of the week every single week 52 weeks a year.

If they could observe the sabbath and shut down the nation for so many years and all of a sudden we can not, do not want to because we might inconvenience ourselves, where does that show the problem might be? In the will of the people?

We the people no longer fight for our Will because we have lost before we ever start in our minds, for the world is greater than we. 

Yes it is, but it is not greater than our God.

There is not a lack of people, it is a lack of will power that keeps us defeated.