The life and struggles of a growing Christian- Day Thirty Five

As we draw closer and closer to the end of the week, and the next Lord's day, we are also coming closer to the super bowl. (which, of course, is on the next Lord's day) I have been hearing all kinds of people talking about the upcoming game, which in it's self is fine, but what about the Lord? Some people are planning on making an entire weekend out of the game and again I ask, what about the Lord? All that I see and hear on television and  radio is super bowl, super bowl, super bowl. How many people that normally go to a Sunday night church service will miss it in order to watch the game? My guess is quite a few. I would really love to see the exact opposite happen! How cool would it be to hear people talk all week about how excited they are to get the chance to worship Their Savior on the upcoming Sunday? I would love to go to work on Monday mornings and hear people talking about what scripture they talked about in Sunday school, or what their preacher's sermon was about, but unfortunately I won't. I'll hear about the game, the commercials, and who got drunk and did something stupid. How much better of a nation would we be if we quit worshiping sports and whatever else we stumble over and returned our allegiance to the one true God? I believe that unfortunately, our priorities are so mixed up that this won't happen. It's not just sports, it's music, money, food, and a variety of THINGS that get in the way (or we put them in the way) of the worship of our Lord. Anything that we put in the way of the Lord is what we make our god. The first commandment says Exodus 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before Me."
I'm not saying that we can't watch the game, or in my case, the second half because I'll be at church for the first half, but we shouldn't make it what we live for. God created us for Himself, He has given us the intelligence to come up with many THINGS to make life fun, comfortable and so on, but He does not intend for us to worship any created THING, but to worship Him, the creator of ALL.