Crunch Time

This post is not intended to be entirely intellectual. Instead, it is intended to encourage anyone who might happen to read it.

This has been an awful semester. Probably the busiest, and most difficult of my college career so far (and I’m referring to the semester as a whole, not one particular class). Ironically, one reason it has been so difficult is because the days just FLY BY. One after another they have gone, and now we are at the end. Usually the weeks just drag on and on, but not so this semester. Wow, I just can’t believe it. There is so much to be done at the end of the semester. It’s like it all hits you right when you’re ready for it to wind down. It is so easy to just think of slacking off during this time. It is so much more fun to do random things with friends, watch movies, stay up late, and ignore the reality that is college. But I want to challenge everyone to finish well. Perhaps this has been a rough semester for you too. Maybe it has been long and unenjoyable at times. You cannot go back and change anything about what happened this semester. You cannot change midterm grades or re-write the papers you did poorly on. However you have complete control over one thing, and that is how you finish this semester. You get to decide how you will use the remaining time you are given. It may not seem like there is enough time left to do everything you need or want to do, but I challenge you to just do SOMETHING! If you do nothing, you will not be able to say that you did anything at all. It you do something, at least you accomplish part of your tasks. I challenge you this week to ignore the temptations to waste the time you have been given. Use your time wisely and glorify your Father to the best of your ability. I will be praying this for each of you as well as myself. Again, I leave you with the words in Scripture, “let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.”