New Week

Well, another week has begun and I am way overdue for a blog post.  I had no intentions of letting last week slip by without contributing to the blog, but slip by it did!   It was a good week but with all that was going on, I didn't end up making time to do a blog post.  Now I have to get back in the habit.

I notice that a lot of people have the same thing happen with church.  Church is a habit that is easy to get out of and hard to get into.  You miss a week or maybe two because you are busy and then suddenly it is hard to get back there.  The list of reasons you have for missing gets longer and the fact that you miss church gets smaller.  Pretty soon a few weeks have gone by and you are having to push yourself to get back there.

After I returned from the Dominican Republic this year, I embarked on a goal of doing a small set of exercises every night to try to improve my health and fitness.   I have found that crucial to that process is to do them every night, no matter what.  The more permission I give myself not to do them, the more likely I am to fail to maintain a healthy habit.  It is too easy, and misleading, to tell myself that missing one night won't matter.  Its the one potatoe chip, the one drink, the one foot in the door that destroys a good habit and sets up a bad one.   Like it or not, healthy living requires discipline while unhealthy living requires little or none.  We are bent people who need to discipline ourselves to good habits to maintain our well being.  That includes church.    The Bible says do not forsake the fellowshiping of yourselves together, one with another, as is the HABIT of some.    How is your habit?  Have you found a church home?  Are you making it a priority to go and not allow the list of reasons why you couldn't make it this week to get longer?  Remind yourself that it is hard to miss a week and that it is more than one week, it is setting you up for failure.

I'm back on the blog and back to trying to make sure I disicpline myself to be faithful with it.  :)