We understand the need to go to work everyday. We understand that children won’t learn if they are not taught everyday. Why is it that so many don’t understand the need to assemble with the saints every time they are together? All of us must be absent at times because of illness, travel, or work. Absenteeism isn’t about those times, but rather the practice of being absent. Allowing a habit to form that nearly always leads to total disassociation from the body of Christ is a danger not only to one’s self, but also to the entire body as a whole. How would we function if on several days of the week certain parts of our bodies didn’t show up? Can you imagine what life would be like if on Monday we had no sight, Tuesday we couldn’t hear, Wednesday we couldn’t use our arms, etc.? The church can no more function without all of its members than our bodies can. The Hebrew writer warns us of the consequences of choosing such a path in Heb. 10:23-27. The only thing waiting down that path is “judgement and fiery indignation”. Think how much better the alternative to say as David did in Psalm 122:1 “I was glad when they said unto me, ‘Let us go into the house of the LORD’.” Assemble with the saints here on earth to prepare for the great assembly of saints in Heaven