When thou goest to the house of God.

I want to share a little passage with you today and it says,

Ecclesiastes 5:1. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

This passage is not a long one but it is one to consider, when we go to church, or gather to worship the Lord God, Our Creator, we should recognize who He is and what He is about, which is HOLINESS and RIGHTEOUSNESS and conformity to His Son Jesus Christ.
When we go to church, we gather to learn more about Him and what He wants from us, through His Words and through His Spirit inspired messages. This is the first aim we should when we go before His presence. The focus is Him, not us. As one hymn puts it,

Lets for get about ourselves, concentrate on Him and worship Him.
Lets for get about ourselves, concentrate on Him and worship Him.
Lets for get about ourselves, concentrate on Him and worship Christ the Lord. Worship Him, Jesus Christ the Lord.

Though, this song is not from the Bible, it speak to the attitude we should have before God. Actively, trying our hardest to keep our focus on Him.

Sometimes the case is, we go for the brethren rather than for God, for the presence of people than the presence of God and when we are called upon to do a mite of service for the Lord we are reluctant. Why? God seeks not your ability, lest you boast of your self but rather, availability and a humble heart, because God made us and knows what we can do through of ourselves and all the more what we can accomplish through Him. So let us restore the place where we have fallen and help one another to do the same.

I leave you with this last set of verses:

Isaiah 58:
  13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
  14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.