Wait, doesn’t the week start on Sunday?
Sunday is the first day of the week, but we often act like Monday is.
Is that because it is when the work week starts? Do we tell on ourselves with this kind of thinking? What does it say?
It says our life is about work.
It comes from a “living for the weekend” culture that aims to get what it needs through the week and spend it on the weekend, only to dread the beginning of the next week.
You’ve heard it. “Ugh! Monday.” It is a drudgery to look at a majority of your life as a time to push through so you can put money away for a few days of leisure and retirement. Perhaps Mondays receive so much hate because they represent the beginning of that weekly time period. Supporting this thought is how Wednesdays, hump days, are considered the downhill time of the week to help you coast to the end – “Thank God it’s Friday.”
But we aren’t supposed to live for the weekend, or even retirement. We were designed to glorify God, save treasures in heaven, and rest there forever (Matt 6:19-21; John 14:1-3).
We were designed for work (Eph 2:10).
Our work should point people to God (Matt 5:16).
Whatever our earthly job is, our occupation is to do whatever we do as if we are doing it for God, not people (Col 3:23).
That means, whether you are a king or a cashier at Burger King, you can look at your everyday life as serving the King of kings (1 Tim 6:13-16).
You don’t have to settle for wishing 5/7th’s of your life away. You can live the greatest life daily.
Living this way and starting your week with others who are remembering Jesus’ sacrifice for us every first day (Sunday, Acts 20:7), you won’t have a weekday to dread.
Does your week start on Sunday?
Van
