Are you “Living for the Weekend”?

I heard this myth recently that a very unique month of July is coming – next month we would have 5 full weekends: 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays & 5 Sundays! The claim goes around that it happens once every 823 years. Someone is not paying attention to their schedules. 2005 July had it, and it will be again in 2016. Other months have this quite frequently. October had 5 full weekends in 1982, 1993, 1999, 2010. Last year had also month of May with 5 weekends. People who do long term planning won’t buy this hoax. You may think “So what? Lol!”

What baffled me is that so many people live for the weekend. Literally. In 2005 a British band had a single hit with such title. It is a sad state of affair when people are unfulfilled by their everyday existence, and have only one hope – fun on the weekend. If you know people who claim to be 'living' for the weekend note how they spend their time - they are usually engaged in mindless activity, and they won’t remember what they did Monday at 6 pm: routine of whatever. I understand that weekends matter, to “recharge your batteries.” We preach the importance of weekly rest and re-creation on Sabbath. BUT! The life goes on not only on the weekend. Every moment is full of life!

Have you wondered about your life? Are you living from weekend to weekend? Showing up at a church just in case something happens? Just to make sure folks have not been “raptured” yet, and you are not left behind? Getting your weekly doze of spirituality? Is there a long term project and schedule of mileposts in your life, are you “seizing the day” and making a progress from day to day, or are you just counting “weekends”?

A song from my younger days by Carolyn Arends comes to mind with this chorus

Seize the day, seize whatever you can
'Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day, pray for grace from God's hand
Then nothing will stand in your way....Seize the day

The last stanza poses this challenge:

Well one thing I've noticed, wherever I wander
Everyone's got a dream he can follow or squander
You can do what you will with the days you are given

What are you doing everyday to impact the world? As a disciple of Jesus Christ are you doing something intentionally everyday to accomplish His Great Commission? Are you telling someone near you about Jesus?

Christ’s plan for this world is YOU! There is no “plan B.” He invested everything into band of disciples who would think and work like He did. And they did the same – made disciples. And their disciples continued the trend. Jesus’ prayer in John 17 was for all who would follow His teaching (verse 20). To be a disciple is to make disciples. Who are you discipling today? Who are you investing your life into tomorrow? Whom will you tell about wonderful experience they could have with Jesus after tomorrow?

There is so much fun in life when you are on a mission! When your life’s motto is “if not now then when?” then the number of weekends in a month matters less, every moment is filled with adventure, and every weekly Sabbath is the high time of celebrating with friends what God has done through the week.

Live your fullest today, every day. Have an adventure with God all the time!