Daily Devotions
Ideas for the Car Ride to Church
Title: Ideas for the Car Ride to Church
Reading for February 29: No new Bible reading because it is leap day
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Deuteronomy 6:7
What do you do on the car ride to church?
When you have small children to drag out of bed and rush around all morning and then quickly herd into the car, the ride the church can actually be a blessing. It is a time to decompress, to be still and prepare our minds for worship.
Try praying a quick prayer at the end of the driveway before you head out (and make sure you leave early enough to do this). Sing psalms together in the car. Ask your spouse or the kids what they're studying in class. If you're single, use this time to meditate on what you're studying.
The ride home from church can be just as valuable. Ask everyone, "What did you learn?" This not only serves as reinforcement, but sometimes great discussions come from this.
We can look at a long ride to church as a chore we must endure, or as a blessing, a kind of quiet time to prepare our hearts for worship.
God, help us prepare for our ride to church tomorrow morning. May we sanctify even the ride to church to you.
