Attending Church on Our Bad Days

Sometimes making it to church on a Sunday morning is a full out chore for me. There are some mornings that I just do not want to "people." I do not have the energy to put on a smile and pretend that everything is going wonderfully in my life. I missed church this past week because of this and then last night as I was falling asleep, God reminded me that those are the days where we most need to be in church and fellowship with the body of Christ. These are the days when we need prayer and encouragement from trusted fellow believers. You see, the church is not for the healthy, I mean they are welcomed with opened arms, but the church is really for those of us who are lost and in need of a savior. Which by the way is everyone, but that is for another day. God tells us in His Word, the Holy Bible in Romans 3:23-24 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."

You see, it is easy to attend on our good das when everything is going well, but it is even more important to attend on those bad days  so that way you can be lifted up by the body of Christ in prayer and best of all, God will get the glory, which is the ultimate goal.
So after God and I had our little heart to heart last night, I look forward to attending on good days and on the bad days as well. Because I also now that the devil would love for me to stay home and isolate myself away from the body of Christ, letting Satan win, and last I checked, Satan is not allowed to win.

It is my hope and prayer that those of you who are reading this take courage in knowing that you are not the only one who has bad days and now we both understand just how important it is that we attend church and connect with the body of Christ on a regular basis.

God Bless
~Ruth