Fruitful Vine

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine, within your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

Friday, March 11, 2005

Sunday worship

God's wants us to worship Him every Lord's Day. He does not say "worship me if it's convenient for you to do so." So for those people who travel on Sunday and miss the worship service, where does that put God on their priority list? I'm sure there are lots of excuses... "there were no planes for later in the day" or "I just had to get back before Monday, so I had to travel on Sunday, so I had to miss worship" (does that mean that whatever is calling you on Monday is much more important than making it for worship on Sunday?) and I'm sure there are more. But again, is your excursion more important than God? I'm having a hard time fathoming this one. And the Christian school who schedules events so that the students can't seem to make it to church due to travel? What does that say to the students? It says "worship is not so important that we need to schedule around it."

Folks, Christianity is doomed in America if this is what we're teaching our children. Priorities.... As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord.... We don't just serve Him when it's convenient, when the plane schedules work in our favor, etc. We must rearrange our travel and other activities around worship, not the other way around. May God help us!