Saturday night's show
There is the story that Erma Bombeck tells about a little boy at church with his mother. He was a good little boy, quiet & well behaved. He didn’t cause any problems. But every once in a while he would stand up in the pew, turn around, look at the people behind him & smile at them. His smile was infectious, & soon everybody behind him was starting to smile back at him, too. It was all going fine until the mother realized what the little boy was doing. When she did, she grabbed him by his ear & twisted it a bit, told him to sit down & remember that he was in church. Then he started sniffling & crying, & she turned to him & said, “That’s better.”
It’s kind of sad, isn’t it, that some have the impression that when we come to church that it is all gloom & doom, & that there is nothing here to really bring joy into our lives?
The word preached from the stage has the power to change our lives just like the smile in the boy, but it doesn’t always need to come from the stage; it’s in the handshakes, and in the life groups, and or in the small group after church praying for someone’s need.
I want to understand each day that God’s house needs to be a place where it is alive, safe, whole, and life changing, just like this Word says it should be.
It’s time to step up and expect God’s Word and God’s place:
To change us, change me,
Our situations, my situations,
Our lives, my life.
