Weekend wake-up

Sunday. 8AM. The allure of the snooze button can be irresistible, and especially tempting if it's 'just this one time'. The problem is that it's easy for one time to become the next time. From there, it's easy enough for our attitude towards church to change, until church no longer seems essential to us. That's a dangerous place to be, because when we see the things we go to church for - to meet with God himself in worship and to meet with fellow Christians - as non-essential, then our relationship with our Father begins to change. Something will be missing.

In the first book of the Bible, 'God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make a helper suitable for him"' (Genesis 2:18 NIV). God created Eve to keep Adam company. And living in a God-centred community isn't meant to be passive: together, the Church actively points us to Jesus, with words, loving gestures and practical help. Church isn't meant as just somewhere to serve at the weekend, but as something to support us all week.

True rest doesn't come from our snooze button. Real peace isn't a separate rest-time where man and God stay in their respective beds and ignore one another. True, deep-down-in-our-soul rest comes through spending time and talking with God and those who know him.



So what now? Before your church service tomorrow, take twenty minutes to make breakfast/tea and dedicate some alone time with Jesus. See what change it makes to your time at church.





— SCRIPTURE —

'Let us go to the house of the Lord.' Psalm 122:1 NIV
— SOULFOOD —

Eze 31-33, Matt 18:21-35, Ps 80:12-19, Pro 15:15-17