Often we have weekend plans of trips, projects, or rest.
Maybe you are watching the minutes tick by in anxious anticipation of the trip you’ve planned. Family will be visited. Fun will be had. You have to get away.
Weekend warriors intend to put their energy into the house or yard. Something needs to be done, and you’ve been planning and working all week, waiting for the weekend to do it.
Perhaps you long for the end of the day on Friday so that you can have a rare weekend where you don’t have to do anything. You are giving yourself some much-needed recuperation.
None of these are wrong. In fact, we will find that all have times when they are necessary, but are they our only choices?
Plans? Do you have to run every weekend, or is it a habit you have fallen into? Are you having good getaways, or are you trying to escape your problems?
Projects? Is it a project you have to get done? Have you been putting off the maintenance of your soul? The yard can wait. There will always be something to fix in the house.
Rest? When you are resting, are you finding rest? Sometimes you might be avoiding important responsibilities. When you are faced with them, it is anything but restful.
What if, this weekend, you take a break from the mundane to invest in the divine? Have you been putting things off that will impact eternity for you or your loved ones?
Even if your plans are set, what if you take time to do something like:
Grow in your Bible study
Improve your prayer life
Enrich your marriage
Encourage your family in the faith
Help a neighbor
Worship God
Plan for future investments in your spiritual life
It is likely you can do what you are doing and add these things. They can become central to your weekend routine.
What will you do this weekend to strengthen your faith?
Van
