Sunday, O Sunday
I’m trying to be more even keel.
Less emotional, slower to react, quick to think.
Which ultimately means I want to take a marathon perspective on life, not a sprint perspective.
I want to give things time. I don’t want to write things off after one experience or jump ship when everything isn’t perfect.
Which is why I think Sunday holds great power for us as we gather together with other Christians to worship communally.
Every Sunday should give us an eternal perspective. Talk about “long term.”
When we gather together on Sunday to sing, pause, pray, learn, and fellowship, we bring our good, bad, and ugly.
We get a glimpse of what eternity with God will be like.
As individuals alienated from God, we are merely sinners. Then, together as the Community of God, we are people united in Christ and united in the body of Christ. People who are living dead, redeemed through grace and grateful, living in light of an eternal view of God’s goodness-bigness-glory.
Sunday should help us keep a long-term perspective on life.
That God is good.
That there is power in something bigger than ourselves.
And when we act out of individuality and not with the community in perspective, we tend to rely on our own goodness.
Sunday is about bringing a glimpse of a better reality into the present world. As we gather—we, real people with problems and boring lives—we are part of something that transcends us.
Feel the power to go and be yourself. To join in. Go point to the glory of God together.
And it’s not just Sunday—where two or three are gathered in the name of Christ, the Kingdom of God is breaking through.
I'm a runner, writer, thinker, and pastor. I love to agitate people's consciences. I like to spend my time reading, running, and relaxing with family & friends.