”Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Better to approach in obedience than to offer the sacrifice as fools do, for they ignorantly do wrong.“ (v. 1)

This text got me thinking about you.

I’m often so concerned about getting people to church that I forget about how they get to church. I forget to pray for them to come with repentance and obedience and submission. I forget to hope that the ground of their lives is one upon which worship can stand.

So this got me thinking about you, and about a prayer for your obedient and repentant and submitted approach to worship.

Then I kept reading, and I got a word for me, too.

Because, as it turns out, there’s an especial warning in the same paragraph for those who say a lot of words. I can aim for obedience in a number of ways, but, if I don’t guard my words and keep myself from guilt, I’m one misplaced utterance away from trouble. So I’ll take this message to heart…

… and I’ll see you at church.

— Tyler