It's Monday

It’s Monday. Yesterday was Sunday and it seems like tomorrow will be too. Sometimes it seems like Sunday comes every other day. But in between, life goes on. Bills have to be paid. Visits have to be made. Yards have to be mowed.  You have to take care of your health. Family has to be built. Children have to be disciplined. Haircuts, banking duties, oil changes. An uncle dies, an aunt deals with cancer, a college friend faces extended illness. Life goes on. And that does not call into focus your ministry. The lingering hurt of a slight. The real or imagined fear that someone is working to get you fired. The frustration of striving to paint a vision in a time when people are suspect of visionaries. The fear that you will never live up to expectations. The challenge to keep improving. The difficulty of getting everything done you need to get done. The emotional drain of carrying the baggage of so many peoples’ hurts. And Sunday’s keep coming. Yes, for you, Sunday is a work day. There is stress and there are dangers even on Sunday. But Sunday is also a day to worship, to remember, to reenergize, to renew, to reconnect. It’s Monday and Sunday is just around the corner, this coming Sunday may I challenge you to worship. To push back all those emotions, to forget about the numbers, about who is there and who isn’t there, to toss aside the questions of effectiveness for a few minutes and sing, and pray, and praise, and commune. As a preacher if you are going to worship you have to be intentional about it, there are just too many distractions to keep you from it unless you force yourself into it. Worship. It’s Monday, but Sunday is coming, and soon - you need worship.