It's that time of year again (No I don't mean Christmas)

This upcoming week is the week most of us college students in this sort of exam week rotation come to loathe. It is a week we dread but look forward to the most at the end of each semester. Oh the irony.

It's in this time that we are allowed to become selfish with our time, even when we don't want to. But often times, (I being a part of the we), we can be selfish with our time to the point we forget to share any of it with God. I know this sermon has been preached in Bible colleges everywhere at the end of the semesters, but I would go even a step further.

We forget to give time to God with each other, in fellowship. I confess, I am not a part of any small group or any other group like this. Yes, there has been opportunity out there for this however, this semester has made me look at my computer for writing papers more than looking into the faces of the people I love. Especially now that I am at the very end of my hardest semester yet and I'm still not in the clear, and pressure is still on and pressing hard.

I think I will be led beside the still waters this break

It's on us all, and we understand each other's stress and craziness. We can alleviate, if only for a moment, one another's to-do list and put things into perspective. God has given us the privilege to learn the things we learn and be tested on the things we know. Some of the things we believe are worthless but required for our education can sneak up on you in the future and then you are glad you learned it. 

This is something I have to keep telling myself, although studying seems daunting and pressure is building, and sometimes there is just one grade that stands between you and whatever comes next, it's all worth it. So maybe sometimes we need to stop and focus together on what studying and test-taking really means. For Bible college students I press you more on this. Not because we are better than anyone else and their education, but because our education is linked to our entire way of being, and also because studying can make us grow weary of the Bible which should not be the case.

Let's encourage one another to love what we learn and grow in our knowledge together, and then when the test taking is over......rest. 

We should be a sanctuary for one another's stress, let's be comforters as well as motivators.

All to God