Pastor’s Corner September 2007
Gearing Up
When I was in High School, I played soccer in the fall. Three weeks before the first day of school, the soccer team started practicing and I used to call those three weeks the worst weeks of the summer. I was normally in pretty good shape from walking the hills of Camp Vick, but nothing prepared me enough for soccer. It was in three weeks in which you made the team, or needed to hang up your spikes and go home. We ran up hills and back down again over and over. We ran timed miles each day. We ran so much that we hardly got to touch a soccer ball. Many people after the first couple of days didn’t return. If your love for soccer was not strong enough, there was no way you could make it to the real season.
Well as I went through that time in High School, each of us need preparation for our Church Season to start. I encourage you to set some time aside each day for the next couple of weeks to sit with God. Take some time to listen, to sit in solitude and silence, to pray, to read the Bible. As my soccer coach knew, we wouldn’t have made it through the season without those three weeks of preparation and as a church, if we don’t prepare, we will find ourselves tired and worn out by the end of the season too.
This is the time to set up some new habits and ways of doings things. Maybe your prayer life is not as consistent as you want it to be or your Bible study is becoming a thing of the past. Maybe you want to set time aside for solitude and silence. Now is the time to set some goals and get your family, friends, and church family to help keep you accountable. God wants to do great things this year through us and we want to be in top spiritual condition so that we can hear God’s voice clearly and give our all. It’s time to gear up Church! Let’s Go!