custom

Thursday December 31st, Luke 2: 41 Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom. We have just moved through the Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas and tonight, New Years. The days are getting longer and soon we will be moving into the Lent, Spring Break, Holy Week, Easter and then Pentecost. What customs do you or your family have for these seasons? Do they include worship? There are so many I only see at worship on Christmas and Easter, the CEO’s or Christmas and Easter onlys. It would be easy to be critical, and yet there is something there in the back of their minds, something that compels them to at least make the connection on these special occasions. Who knows how God is working in them. Perhaps the reason they don’t come more often is they don’t feel welcome because someone is always saying, I don’t see you very often, instead of simply welcoming them. Who knows when or if their worship life as a family will expand into something more often. But for Jesus and his family, worship was their “custom.” This new year, make it more of your custom also.