I like that worship service! I hear that once in a while and can't help but wonder if our God could ever say that about the service. In our seeker sensitive services we try so hard to have a worship service that people like I can't help but wonder if we don't leave God out of the picture. It seems the music has to be to our taste, the order of service needs to please us, (please nothing different) and everything within a certain time slot or we're upset. Why is it what we get out of the service and not what God gets out of it? Do we come to give God His rightful honor or come to take from Him another blessing? Maybe it's time to change our attitude toward worship and make it about God and not us. Isn't He worth it?

After the message yesterday someone asked me why life is so full of vanity. I replied that life isn't but life without God at the center is vanity and empty. Many times in the pursuit of experiencing life's things we are so busy and intense it doesn't seem this way but at the pauses it floods in on us. Life has shown so many people successful "under the sun" who are restless with what they have and are and just have to go on and try something new hoping that the new thing will quench the thirst for meaning in their life. Only when God is in His proper place in a life does that life find fullness. Jesus said, "I have come that you might have life and have it in it's fullness" (John 10:10). Have you ever known anyone who tried and was successful in finding what the world offered but was still empty?

Nothing to follow up the sermon from yesterday, is it possible? "Some people are like seed along the path, where the Word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan come and takes away the Word that was sown in them". (Mark 4:15) Did this ever happen to you? God wants us to do "Better"!

I didn't go to church yesterday because of my fall so I attended by way of the computer. It was great! I sang to the top of my lungs, I bowed my head and prayed with the Pastor, I listened attentively to the message and even heard Pastor Barbee say "the most miserable Christian is the one who tries to live without Christ". I would have even given some money if the ushers could have gotten an offering plate in front of me. I praise the Lord for our times and the electronics of our day.
Yet I sensed a missing ingredient of Church. Part of our "coming together" is touching one another. Whether it's just greeting each other with a handshake or giving a hug, fellowship includes a touch. I have heard people say so often when given a hug "I needed that". Yesterday when I attended church I was so blessed but really missed the touch of God's people. How about you? Have you ever felt that way? And just think, I'm not a "huggy" person.