Yay - time for church!

"Yay, time for church!"

How many times have you said that, or heard someone in your family say that?

Psalm 122 is all about delighting in the presence of God, in going to Jerusalem and his temple.
So for us now, verse 1 'I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the Lord"', means going to church - as do the other references in the psalm to Jerusalem.

So is it how we feel, and what should it mean to us?

Truth be told, it's often the exact opposite of how we really feel - when you're tired after a long week, or just want to lounge around at home in front of the telly, how tempting is it to skip church? And if you didn't have parents dragging you along, I bet you'd miss plenty of weeks!
To get to a place where we delight in going to church, we have to focus on the why of church - we go to worship God and be in his presence. Now that sounds a whole lot better than sitting through another service, or youth session, and should make us excited on a Sunday morning!

This Sunday, we're sweetening the deal with bacon sarnies, but how about next Sunday, when there's no ID in the morning, you have a think about why you're really dreading it, and why you should be looking forward to it - then talk to God about it!