Son-day

12/01/2009

"For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them."
(Matthew 18:20 NLT).

We should worship God every day! Why? Because, every day is a Son-day!

On a recent Sunday, my heart was saddened as I made the drive to church. Why? Because, the freeways were so empty. So, so quiet…and I wondered if God was saddened too. I’ve seen those same freeways Monday through Friday packed with commuters, and I wondered if it broke God’s heart that so many would rise out of bed early on a weekday fighting the heavy traffic on the way to work, but come Sunday, too many stay home with no interest in joining together to worship Him. How sad is that? Where is our passion for God? How can we care so little about our Creator? How can we take God’s unconditional love for us so for granted?

Recently, our pastor spoke about those who were not sitting with us on Sunday morning in church. When our pastor said we were the rebels, those of us sitting in church, I liked it. We are the ones going against the norm on Sunday morning and driving on the empty roads to church. We are the James Deans of Sundays.

Do we realize that Jesus came to earth to show us how life is done here? How we are to worship our Father every day, how we are to walk this earth in love, how we are to die trusting God because even in that dying we can live again? It’s not easy for us here, and it wasn’t easy for Jesus. He sweat drops of blood while praying about what was to come, He knew suffering, He knew sorrow, He knew pain…He understands what we are going through here on earth. Life is not going to be perfect, we are not going to be perfect, but God is perfect. He knows how we struggle. Many of us will try our best to be at our holiest on Sunday, put on a happy smile, a nice outfit, and make our way to church. But there are also many who ignore Sunday altogether, who never attend a church because they are afraid if they even enter a church on Sunday the walls might just fall down on them. But, we’re all missing the main point if we think our relationship with our Father is just about Sunday; it’s about every day being a Son-day.

If we who do believe would treat every day as a Son-day by focusing our hearts on Jesus and modeling our lives after Him, then the traffic on our freeways on Sunday morning might change drastically. It could make the Monday-through-Friday traffic seem like an empty freeway. They’d have to start opening up the car-pool lane on Sunday too, and maybe even put in two lanes for car pools because most people would be traveling with their families to church! We’d have to leave extra early to get to church on time! Oh, what a problem it would be! Go God!! Fill up the freeways on Sunday with rebels who long to worship You together and celebrate Your love and goodness every day!

Let’s live every day as a Son-day, then when Sunday comes, our hearts will be right where they need to be…close to God!!