Sundays should be the
greatest day of your week! God thinks it's of the utmost importance that we
prioritize it. From a Back to Church Sunday sermon here are Six Reasons
to Invest in a Weekly Sabbath:
1. I need it
(Genesis 2:2; Mark 2:27).
God knows I need
it. That’s why He rested. God doesn’t want to flatten your fun or lessen your
life by taking away a day. He wants to increase your joy and improve your life
by giving you a day to refresh, refuel, and refocus with Him because He knows
you need it.
2. God asks me to
(Exodus 20:8).
The fourth commandment
says to keep the Sabbath “holy.”
3. God blessed
the Sabbath (Genesis 2:3).
For reasons only He
fully understands, God says that He blessed the Sabbath. It’s a special
day, not an extra day. When we cooperate with what God blesses, we get
blessed.
4. My life goes
better when I Sabbath.
So many of us think that
if we can get ahead faster, if we are productive seven days a week . . . But
that’s not how God made the universe. Secular sociologists have studied
the benefits of church attendance. What they’ve found is that those who attend
church regularly…
1. Live seven and a half
years longer than those who don’t.
2. Are 56 percent more
likely to have an optimistic life outlook than those who don’t.
3. Are 27 percent less
likely to be depressed.
4. Are 35 percent less
likely to get divorced.
5. Have higher average
levels of commitment to partners, higher levels of marital satisfaction, less
thinking and talking about divorce, and lower levels of negative interaction.
6. Achieve higher
grades, and practice better time management.
The studies are pretty
clear: life goes better for those who go to church regularly.
5. My Mondays go
better when I Sabbath.
Do you sometimes dread
Mondays? We get out of bed saying, “Rats, I have to go back to work today.”
We’re exhausted and unmotivated because we used all our energy on Sunday
instead of receiving new energy from Sunday.
6. My family does
better when we Sabbath.
It really is true that
the family that rests together does best together. A family that attends
church learns skills from the Bible about how to do relationships better and
how to do life better.Great families become great by building great memories
together. If you develop the habit of doing church together, your children (or
your parents) will build a repository of enriched memories that will last a
lifetime. My family is a far better family because of church.
7. My eternity
will go better if I Sabbath.
God promises to bless me
if I bless Him. And I bless Him when I show up at church.
God loves Sundays and so
should we. Amen?
