RETURNING to MONDAY – regardless if we want to or not! Time to think about Jesus.

RETURNING TO MONDAY –

Pastor Calvin Cook –

June 2, 2025

Scripture focus: Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, Sabbath day’s journey away. And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying. Peter and John and James and Andrew, Phillip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James. All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and his brothers. Acts 1:12-14 ESV

This past weekend was great and awesome. I was engaged and worshiped , celebrated victories of graduations – birthdays – graduations – and retirements with great cake,  engaged in the celebration of the Lord’s Supper (communion), enjoyed times of Holy fellowship gathered for a meal, seeing someone who we hadn’t seen in several years, meeting new people, was able to retreat to a place of quiet reflection, take a nap, and concluding the day with spending time in conversation with others, while remembering and praying for the soul needs of others.

However, the memories of the weekend have been so good and it’s memories will linger as long as I allow. The reality of Monday is back. Just like it comes every week. How I respond to the victories and great memories of the past will try to be stolen by new situations and even problems that are waiting just outside this moment. Right now, I’m safe, in the quietness of sanctuary, music playing, Bible open, thoughts swirling, feeling the presence of God in this place. But once again I have the nagging pull, Monday’s back, and going back to bed and pulling the blanket over my head is not what the day will be about. These thoughts ask the question “what will Monday, or any new day be about?”

Acts 1 gives us some directions about what Monday should be about. It should be about returning to that which is important. After the Ascension, Acts 1: 12-14 gives the example of what the Disciples did with a few others, naming Mary mother of Jesus, and Jesus’s brothers included in the important return to Monday. They returned to “being in one accord” and to “prayer”.

What about us today, have we returned to being in one accord with an ever-burning desire to experience Jesus, the teachings of Jesus, receiving afresh the gift of life changing salvation, redemption that leaves the sins of the past behind, to the place where we might consider the best of yesterday and carry that into Monday. But be careful, that we do not make it all about us but more about all that we do is done for God, and for God’s glory.

Prayer : Lord, how precious it is to be in your presence. To experience life with you and because of you. I pray that as the new harshness of Monday appears that our hope will become firmly routed in you and all that you are doing right here in the midst of today. Lord, walk with us and before us make clear the pathway of life. In Jesus name we pray. Amen