Constant renewal

So the past few Sundays it has seemed that we have been having some air conditioning issues at the church, especially in the sanctuary area. Each Sunday I get to the church around 8:45 and crank up the air conditioning in the youth house, sunday school classroom and the sanctuary. Usually the sanctuary is somewhat cool by the time we get ready for worship at 11:00, but not lately. Lately it seems that it cools to a certain point and then it just stops being efficient. So I called one of my close friends who works on air conditioners for a living. He asked me to describe my problem and I did, he asked me if it had just started over the past 3 weeks or so and I said yes. He said there was so much humidity lately that they were having that same problem with several of their customers. He talked to me for a while and suggested that the problem is that in 2-3 hours the air conditioning units in the church don't stand a chance of cooling the building and fighting off all of the humidity. That we were far better off, and money ahead if we go ahead and leave the units running through out the week. He said if we set the air a little big higher than we want it through out the week and then turn it down on Sunday the results would be much better.
How is that like our walk with God? Sometimes we sit the whole week through stagnating, and losing ground only to show up on Sunday hoping to make it all up. We come into worship expecting in one hour to be able not just to get an uplifting, spirit filled time with God but also wanting to undo all of the things that have happened to cause this need. We need to focus on God each day. Start out each day with prayer and reading a devotion of some sort, during this time let God know that you want to give Him your thoughts and your actions for that day. Then, when we show up for worship on Sunday it simply re-inforces and strengthens what we've done all week long. Sunday morning worship is meant to complement your week and walk with Christ, not to supplement what you didn't do all week with God.
Romans 12:1-2 states, - Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual Or reasonable act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.
We cannot offer ourselves as living sacrifices until we learn to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. We cannot renew our minds without daily contact with God. Without His help, and His guidance and direction we are defenseless in our endeavors to keep our lives where they need to be on a daily basis, so that Sunday does not become a frantic time of trying to get ourselves right, we should stay right all week and be uplifted by Sunday worship!
Have a great day and thanks for reading!