Busy Bees

In today's society, everyone is so busy with work or school or whatever, that I feel like we don't often stop and reflect on what's going on around us and what our priorities are. We just go through the motions. I know that I, for one, am guilty of this. Last semester I took one less class than I did the semester before so I had more free time. It led me to think, "What do I do now that I have so much free time?" I proceeded to try and get a job but I didn't get any call backs.

However, I realized that I am not living my life the way that I should be. My priorities were not straight. I felt like I NEEDED a job or something else that would keep me busy. My grandmother told me that she didn't think I needed a job because I am a full time college student and that I have the rest of my life to work. She was right.

But there is one thing that I should have been putting more time into and it was not getting a job. I should have been putting more time into prayer, meditating and reading the Bible. This is something that I struggle with. In my Management class last semester, we had a guest speaker. He talked about how he took an hour out of every day to be with the Lord. I got to thinking about this and I thought, "Can I do that?" The answer is yes! I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, right?

This semester has been crazy busy already. I am taking harder classes and more of them. I am pledging a social club. And in between all of that I am praying and reading the Bible every night. A lot of times I get lazy and I think I can skip reading the Bible tonight but I quickly snap myself out of it and think, "I can take just a few minutes out of my day today to read God's Word." With all of that said, I am not trying to brag and say that I am doing everything right as a busy college student because that is NOT the case. All I am saying is that here IS enough time in the day for God. You can never be too busy for God.

Ask yourself this,"What am I doing here? What is my purpose?" Is it an earthly thing? Maybe you need to rethink things. I sure do. For a while I thought that my purpose was to get a job and earn money to help pay for college. That's an earthly thing that I was trying to make my purpose. But I only have one purpose. I believe that my purpose is to GLORIFY God in all that I do. We can't satisfy our purpose without Him.

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." Romans 12:2

Much Love, 

Angela Paige