What if?

What if we stopped treating Sunday like an extra Saturday? What if we didn’t think of it as one more day to go to Home Depot, or one more day for kids’ sporting events or another day to prepare for Monday? What if we treated Sunday like the Lord’s Day? What would be the difference in our lives between making this decision this week and a year from now?

One year from this Sunday, we will have spent 52 days with our heart focused on God and Jesus Christ. Seven and half weeks learning about the blessings and responsibilities of salvation—what would that do to us?

Wait! What if we actually treated Saturday as the day to prepare for Sunday? I’m not saying all day, but you know.  What if we got our mind and heart ready on Saturday to worship God, hear His Word preached and fellowship with other believers?

Wait, again! What if we treated Monday like the first day to review and put into practice what we learned on Sunday? What would the rest of the week look like?

Wait, wait, wait!! What if during the week we took some action to connect with other believers to encourage one another, to pray for one another. What if we just connected by phone, e-mail or over coffee? What if we encouraged our pastor?

Wait (I know, I know, I get too excited)! What if we took the first and greatest commandment  – “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind ” and the second commandment “You shall love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:37, 38)”  and applied it to how we live? Just thinking.