Casual Gathering. Impromptu get-togethers. Last minute plans. Not much work involved to get ready. Comfortable and relaxed.
Going to a training with other professionals, the dress code runs the gambit: skirt, pants, jeans, leggings. The twenty-somethings being the most “casual” in their dress. Have an appointment or a scheduled time to meet, the attitude of “on time is late” to the “always running late” casual attitude of “I’m here now.”
There are times when having an attitude of casual-ness will serve us well… less stress, go with the flow, let it run off your back, in one ear and out the other. But can it be appropriate all the time? Are there times when our attitude needs to change? To be present, focused, on your game?
In our relationship with God, is it a casual attitude of “God is good with me just as I am?” “God loves me, I don’t need to go to church?” Or is there a reverence when approaching God in prayer? Is there a humbleness in service, a gentleness in our speech? The desire to know God more as we read our bibles, to worship Him with a lowly view of self and a high and lifted view of God?
Let us check our attitudes at the door as we approach God in prayer, worship, service, speech. He is the God of the universe. He created all things. The last time I checked, I do not have a universe that I created.
Isaiah 66:2 “My hands have made both heaven and earth; they and everything in them are mine. I, the Lord, have spoken!“I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts, who tremble at my word.