At the end of a LONG week have you ever gone home, sat on the couch, and let out a big WHEWWWWW! Now for all the GUYS out there, you can take what you want from that comment, but I simply meant a huge SIGH OF RELIEF! HA HA! In all seriousness, I think we can agree that life can get pretty BUSY! Between our spouses, jobs, school, families, finances, going to the grocery store, laundry, kids, friendships, relationships, stuff to do around the house, etc it can be overwhelming trying to find a BALANCE for everything!
As Student Leaders, if you're anything like me, it can be easy to say to yourself, "Man, how am I ever going to fit in time to hang out with students or take my ministry to the next level? I barely have enough time for MYSELF!" The answer to that questions is this....You're NEVER going to be able to FIT IN time for students or student ministry, you have to be willing to MAKE TIME!
When you think about it, ANYTHING that's REALLY important to you in your life you MAKE TIME for! If you haven't spent time with your significant other you MAKE TIME for a date! If you have no food in the refrigerator, you MAKE TIME to go to the grocery store! If you're out of underwear you MAKE TIME to do the laundry (I had to do this yesterday HA HA)! If you need some extra money, you MAKE TIME for more hours or a side job or two. If someone in your family is hurting, you MAKE TIME to comfort them! The list can go on and on for the things we MAKE TIME for!
My question to you is this, WHEN DO YOU MAKE TIME FOR STUDENTS? As Student Leaders, I think we've tried too much to simply FIT IN time with students! As life gets busier, more complicated, stressful, and overwhelming, if all we ever do is try to FIT IN time when we have a moment to spare you want to know what's going to happen? Day after day, week after week, we're going to keep saying
"Maybe tomorrow or maybe next week" as our STUDENTS and our STUDENT MINISTRY continues to get pushed to BOTTOM of our priorities!
Remember this...Jesus GAVE UP HIS LIFE for us so that we could have these OPPORTUNITIES! He gave up his life serving as the GREATEST EXAMPLE of what SACRIFICE really means! Are you willing to SACRIFICE your time to PICK UP THE PHONE and call a student? Are you willing to take a few minutes to SEND A FACEBOOK MESSAGE to encourage a student? Are you willing to spend an afternoon or a night HANGING OUT to build authentic relationships with students? Jesus Christ was willing to give up EVERYTHING? What are you willing to give? Are you willing to MAKE TIME or just FIT IN time? I believe with all my heart students DESERVE and NEED our time! What about you?
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