The Lord never asked us to annually celebrate His birth nor to annually celebrate His resurrection, but He expressed His desire that we celebrate the memorial of His death. Every first day of the week (Acts 20:7), the day of His resurrection, the new creation day, suitably affords opportunity for those who are new creatures in Christ to gather to His precious name alone (Matt. 18:20), outside the camp (the religious system adapted to man’s pleasing; Heb. 13:13), to “show the Lord’s death till He come” (1 Cor. 11:26). “This do . . . in remembrance of Me” (1 Cor. 11:25).
Then amid the gloom and darkness,
Shines one feeble ray of light —
Some, who feel and own the ruin,
Seek by faith to walk aright.