Day of the Vow/Covenant

[l'Chante]

On 16 December, white, Afrikaans speaking South Africans will be honouring a covenant our forefathers made to treat this day as a Sabbath.. well.. forever. They were faced with fighting thousands of Zulu warriors and needed God's help, and true to His nature, God protected His children. Now this happened in 1838 which of course is slightly before my birth date, so it's not like I have any recollection of it or anything.

I know that I should honour it as a day that God protected my forefathers in the battle between good and evil, but it just feels wrong to celebrate it in modern day. My logic tells me that this day isn't treated as a Sabbath for political reasons as obviously, most Zulu's are Christians nowadays. It is a day for the current generation to remember that God protected us when we were in dire need of His help.

So why does it feel so wrong to me to treat it as a Sabbath then? Is it because I celebrate a day that my forefathers killed my friends' forefathers?

 

[Theofilus]

Think of this... Do Americans who have British friends celebrate the 4th of July? They aren't celebrating the fact that their forefathers killed the forefathers of their British friends, but rather that they won their independence, irrespective of how they got it.

You wouldn't be celebrating the killing of your friends' forefathes, but God's protection of your forefathers.