Hebrews 10 KJV —
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our
faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the
more, as ye see the day approaching.
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Frances Ridley Havergal’s (the hymnist)
'Twelve reasons for attending church on a rainy Sunday':
1. God has blessed the Lord's day and
hallowed it, making no exceptions for hot or cold or stormy days.
2. I expect my minister to be there. I should
be surprised if he were to stay at home on account of the weather.
3. By staying away I may lose the prayers
which may bring God's blessing and the sermon that would have done me great
good.
4. My presence is more needful on Sundays
when there are few than those days when the church is crowded.
5. On any important business, rainy weather
does not keep me at home, and Church attendance is, in God's sight, very
important.
6. Such weather will show me on what
foundation my faith is built; it will prove how much I love Christ. True love
rarely fails to meet an appointment.
7. Though my excuses satisfy myself, they
still must undergo God's scrutiny, and they must be well grounded to do that.
8. There's a special promise that where two
or three meet together in God's name He will be in the midst of them.
9. An avoidable absence from the church is an
infallible evidence of spiritual decay. Disciples first follow Christ at a
distance, and then, like Peter, do not
know Him.
10. My faith is to be shown by my
self-denying Christian life, and not by the rise and fall of the barometer.
11. Such yielding to surmounting difficulties
prepares for yielding to those merely imaginary, until thousands never enter a
church, and yet think they have good reason for such neglect.
12. I know not how many more Sundays God may
give me, and it would be a poor preparation for my first Sunday in heaven to
have slighted my last Sunday on earth.'
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May we join her today, whatever the
circumstance, in singing, "Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord,
to thee." See less
