These are the words of Him "who spake as never man spake." God does not ignore reason. He does not ask us to believe without evidence. "His eternal power and Godhead" have been demonstrated in His word and works, and by His word and works. He has written His word in prediction; He has written the same word in fulfilment. He has written His word in promise; He has written it again in the fruition of realization. He has written His word on the tables of stone; He has written it in the hearts of those who have yielded to the divine will.
God often demands action without particular reason, save in the inherent, dominating conviction of the message itself. Even so was Jonah's message to Nineveh. The most needed messages to the soul often come that way. God gives general evidence enough for confidence in Him; but the message which demands our faith, which tests our confidence, comes frequently without appeal to our human reason. Human reason would ask, "Why should the blind man wash in the pool of Siloam? Was not any other water just as good?" "Why should Naaman dip seven times in Jordan?" "Surely the rivers of Damascus were better and cleaner." The same human reason can see the need of a weekly day of rest, but why the seventh day? How does it differ in any way from the other days of the septenary cycle?
Yet to the man who believes that it is the highest kind of good judgment to trust the infinite God, there are many reasons why the seventh day should be observed. Note these: (1) A definite day prevents confusion and unifies action and character. Human reason acknowledges this in its efforts to enforce a particular secular day by civil law. (2) What could be more fitting than the closing day of the cycle—rest and contemplation after labor? (3) What day could so well call God to remembrance as the very day in the cycle upon which "He rested, and was refreshed," and which He set apart and blessed? (4) What day better fitted for a holy day than that day around which cluster, as around no other day, the great facts of creation? Surely here are reasons sufficient to the believing soul; and in the doing of God's commandment forever would he be kept from the worship of the creature, the thing; and forever he would drink in the Sabbath blessing of his Creator and Redeemer. "Have faith in God."