ready for worship

It can be a physical challenge to get focused on Jesus for worship. Your own body may get in the way. Consider this.

If you worship on Sunday morning, your whole routine is probably different than for the rest of the week. On a weekday, perhaps you have a pattern. If you work, then you get up at a certain time and get ready in a similar way. If you are going to school, it is the same, only you wait until the very last minute. Whatever the case, Sundays don’t come at you the same way.

Then there is Saturday night. Chances are you stayed up later. Maybe you spent the evening with friends. Maybe you went out to dinner. A party of some sort. Whatever the case, not the same bedtime.  If you are a teenager, it’s going to be quite a bit later.

Sunday morning arrives and you are in one of two scenarios. One is if you worship at an earlier service at 8 or 9, and you are tired. Didn’t get to “sleep in.” The other is if you attend a later service, 10, 10:30, or 11, then you may sleep in too long. Either way, you come tired. Maybe even dragging.

You get to church. Late for many of you. The music starts, it is time to worship the living God. Ready? Your mind is saying, “OK, we can do this thing!” Your body is saying, “Should have had another cup of coffee…”