“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another —and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
Hebrews 10:24-25
This past Sunday you were faced with a choice.
You could gather with fellow believers to worship the Lord or you could spend the day at the amusement park.
You chose the merry-go-round over the anointed message!
What’s that – I am being unfair and judgmental?
Not really, I just missed you this past week while you rode the roller-coaster and then the week before when you had to get your boat in the water and the week before that when your kids had a baseball tournament and the week before that because the neighbors were revolting about your uncut lawn and the week before that…
You get the point.
As we establish our priorities in life it is easy to crowd out the important things with a host of other less important things.
Patterns reveal priorities.
I really am not judging you because that is not my place and the truth is, an occasional “miss” happens for all of us. But the repeated absence, or the constant late arrival or the “let-me-out-of-here-before-I-am-forced-to-talk–to-someone” quick escape artist points to a failure to understand what the writer of Hebrews warned about in the verses above. It becomes much more difficult to “…spur one another on toward love and good deeds…” when the priorities you have chosen cause a pattern to develop where you are habitually absent from God’s house and from the fellowship it offers.
Patterns reveal priorities and priorities point to our values.
If you value God and His people you will make it a priority to be with them!
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