Your Saturday Nights Will Tell You How Important Your Sunday Mornings Are

I enjoy most Saturdays. While they are busy at times, they usually busy with events and activities that are different from the rest of the week. We might work on a project around the house, or just take it easy. We might go do something fun as a family, or just sort of hang out.

But Saturday evenings, to me, are one of my favorite times of the week. I will admit, as a preacher, my nerves are already kicking in on Saturday night because the text of my sermon is running through my brain at warp speed. I often struggle to fall asleep, simply because my mind struggles to rest with the thoughts of my sermon going ’round and ’round in my mind. That part of Saturday evening is not fun!

However, Saturday evenings, typically, are slower around our house, and have become something very special. We make sure the kids have their showers and then we sing together. No, it’s nothing to write home about or throw on Facebook Live, but we just enjoy singing about five worship songs together. If we are running ahead of schedule, we might also read a short devotional book, but we always sing.

And we are all in bed at a decent hour, even though Bible classes don’t start until 9:30 on Sunday morning.

Why?

Because our Saturday nights help us see how important Sunday morning is going to be!

I am utterly amazed at how many people talk about how important worship is, but stay up half the night watching movies or ball games on TV, then roll into worship half-awake, trying to mumble their way through the songs and struggling to avoid catching some zzz’s during the sermon.

It is sad how many people have spent so much time on Saturday–even well into the night–watching their favorite games that they struggle to think of anything else on Sunday morning. While eating the Lord’s Supper, they are replaying the highlight reel of their team instead of concentrating on the Savior of their soul.

I can’t figure out how Christians can roll in from weekend trips at midnight or 1AM, excuse skipping Bible class, and then talk about how worship is so meaningful to them.

Listen, I’m not trying to say that every Christian has to be in bed by a certain time or that our entire Saturday needs to be spent reading the Bible and singing “Amazing Grace.” Like I said, the variety of Saturday is part of what makes it fun, and there will be times when our activities stretch further into the day. That’s part of what makes it a great day, is the variety. But are those late nights doing what we want clouding our minds about what is coming the next day? If we are honest, is that not at least possible, if not a very real struggle?

orship is something that should be highly anticipated. After all, we have the opportunity to adore and praise the Almighty and be in His presence! What could be more important or exciting than that?

Your Saturday evening may just answer that question for you.

“I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord!'” (Psalm 122:1)

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AUTHOR: Adam Faughn