What brings you joy? What makes you glad? Does being with family and friends make you happy? What about co-workers? Does seeing your favorite team win bring you excitement and happiness? Are you happy when you go to the church building for worship services?
Being glad or happy can depend on the situation. Some will make us happy and others won’t. Many of the earthly things that makes us happy are short lived. They are fleeting moments. It is not to say they are bad, just momentary. But what if there was a place that could make us glad regularly?
There is such a place, if we approach it with the right frame of mind. Going to our local church can make us glad. It can lift our spirits. We see people like us, people who have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Though none of them are perfect, we can worship with them every week knowing we are saved through the same blood.
The Psalmist was glad to the temple. He was happy to go before God and worship. It was a reminder that God cares for his people. It was an opportunity to express thankfulness to God in community with others. Being together, corporately praising God is uplifting. We receive something when we attend worship services, whether we think we do or not.
As Sunday approaches, we should look forward to worshiping God with others. We should look forward to going to the church. Praising God and thanking him for his grace, mercy, and love should lighten our hearts. After all, everything we have, including the very air we breathe, is a gift from God.
I pray we all look forward to worship services. I pray we go to church with an attitude of thankfulness. I pray each one of us seek to praise God corporately, thanking him for his grace, mercy, and love. Look forward to worship. Be thankful. Praise God. Accept his blessings of grace, mercy, and love.
Psalm 122:1
I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
Marty Pressey 