Don't Miss Someday!

Our church is having a Someday Sunday event coming up in a few weeks.  This is a time to encourage those who have perhaps said, "someday I'll go to church" or "someday I'll go to Sunday school."  This thought has had me thinking a lot about the three little words, someday is coming. 
How many times do we say, or think, "someday, I'll....fill in the blank."  I have used "someday" as the go to word when my boys ask about when we'll do something....When will we go to Disney World?...someday.....When can we get a four wheeler?....someday....When will you take us to all the place you have been before we were born?....someday... You get my picture.  Saying someday allows us to put off things that we don't think we are ready for.  It also is a way to avoid doing things that we just don't want to do....someday I'll clean out the catch-all closet or someday I'll join the gym and start taking care of myself.  We also attach a lot of hopes and dreams to someday.  Someday when we retire, we'll travel.  Someday we'll build the house of our dreams.  I've heard retiring and someday being linked together often.  But what if your loved one passes away or suffers a serious illness and those long awaited, someday-filled days never happen?  What if you put off getting healthy so long that someday doesn't come for you?
The point is that we let so much get in the way of someday actually coming, whether it's our job, our lack of desire, selfishness, or our over committed schedule.  Sometimes it may be our own understanding that gets in the way.  John 13:7 say, " Jesus replied, "You don't understand now what I am doing, but someday you will." Jesuse knew that someday would come too! Someday is not always for us to know when it will come but rather is it for us to have faith and trust that it will. This can be a hard and challenging someday to wait for. There is a time for everything....including a time for someday to come and not be passed up or missed.
Someday can be a goal to shoot for.  I used to say, someday I'll get my masters degree.  I am now almost finished with my masters program.  That someday goal is coming soon!  But it took me working a lot and sacrificing a lot.  When the focus is lost, someday never comes. If you just keep hoping, and waiting without working you might find that you become tired, frustrated, and disappointed.  Working towards someday can get tiring and feelings of giving up can sneak up fast but stay the course.  Be strong, be focused, and endure the low valleys.  The ultimate someday will come when we stand before God and hear "job well done." Staying focused on my purpose and working with a servants heart that is about more than me will hopefully get me to that goal.....someday.