The Star of Bethlehem - Page 4

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So religion, a person’s relationship with his or her Maker and God, is the central issue in human life, compared with which all else must be of secondary importance.  But it is a very common temptation to separate one’s worship from one’s daily life; to label Sunday, or part of Sunday, for God, and the rest of the week for oneself, instead of using the rest of the week as a means of offering oneself and one’s life to him.  Yet it is that which proves the quality and reality of one’s worship.  For at the end of the Sunday Eucharist, when Our Lord has gathered us all together before his Father’s Throne, God sends each single one of us, with his blessing, back into the world again, there to man as faithful soldiers and servants our particular outpost of the Kingdom of God.