Thursday, Feb 07, 2008

February 7, 2008

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February 7, 2008
Today’s Reading http://timewithgod.mypodcast.com
Jeremiah 40; lamentations 2; Mark 12: 28-44.

This week’s theme verse. Hebrews 10:25 “Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”

Habits are important. A habit is a matter of discipline. We try to develop habits because we believe that some things done repetitiously are beneficial to us, like brushing the teeth, taking showers, paying bills etc. Good habits, even in the small things, result in a “good quality of life” but a bad habit drags us down. The discipline of a habit is often what separates the “haves” from the “have nots.” If you want joy, fulfillment and a good life you must have good habits. That’s why the habit of church attendance is so important. One visit to church may not seem much of a help, and committing to one day a week may even seem like a colossal waste of time. How many of us even remember any of the sermons preached over a lifetime… I can’t even remember last weeks! But like daily meals, the cumulative effect of this habit is shockingly beneficial and the lack of it never impacts us until we wake up one day and realize how far we have drifted without it and the hole it has left inside. Fact: God made us to need the discipline of doing Church. It’s like a daily work out, like brushing teeth, like paying bills… if you don’t do them, at first you don’t notice any difference… but you just wait until the tooth ache! Then you realize how much this bad habit has cost you.

Dear Lord, I want to commit to a habit that will slowly and inevitably change my life: being with your people in your house every week. I am making a conscious decision to develop the discipline of hope and fulfillment. Please remove the nagging arguments from my mind that tell me I have better things, and more important things to do when I know that is simply not true. I know that worshiping you with your people is one of the most important things I can ever do. I don’t want to drift. I don’t want to wake up one day with a hole in my heart knowing that, with a little promising habit my life could have been so much better. I choose you!

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