“You are wonderful, Lord, and you deserve all praise, because you are much greater than anyone can understand.” (Psalm 145:3 Contemporary English Version)
It’s Saturday and most of us have an actual or at the minimum, a mental “things to do list” that expresses what we need to get done today. We have our chores, our casual activity plans, our comfortable weekend naps. We have errands to run, entertainment venues to visit, and everything we cannot get done during the busy work week. There are the children and grandchildren activities and the responsibility to get them to and from games, gymnastics, and general extra-curricular activities associated with their schools or even church youth programs. Your “Saturday chore list” seems full. Right?
You have enough to do, not including the things you will have to do that you did not plan to do. But please, let me add one more important thing to your Saturday chore list. Take note now! Add, “Get my mind set on entering the Lord’s house tomorrow to worship the Lord and to praise Him in the presence of the saints.” Doesn’t the Lord deserve your praise for all He has done for you! Is He not worthy of your worship! Isn’t it His inspired word that admonishes us not to be as those who forsake the assembly of the saints? The answer to each of those questions is, “Of course!”
I’ve said enough. So go ahead, amend your Saturday chore list with the one thing I have added, and start checking off your “things to do list.” And, however you are tempted and regardless of the intensity that you are tempted, and in spite of how the enemy will plant radical misbeliefs to justify you ignoring my instruction to add to your Saturday chore list, be wise and do not take off the additional, one more thing to do, that I just stated. Have a super Saturday, but be it no surprise to any that you shall prepare and plan for a wonderful experience in the special presence of the Lord in the sanctuary tomorrow, Sunday! Be blessed!
“Yet the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father seeks such to worship Him.” (John 4:23 Modern English Version)
Still committed to the climb,
Mark L. King