Yes folks, I stretched out my college days. Im a perfectionist, but I also spread myself thin.
So over the years I have taken like 2 classes at a time, but now its time to crank it out...
I can't quite explain how excited I am.
Coming back on campus has evoked a lot of great/weird feelings.
Excitement, Anxiety, Peace, Joy, Creativity, Confusion, Love, Courage, and not to mention, Vision and Thought.
As I wait for my next class, I can't stop thinking about my generation.
The University of South Florida has well over 40,000 students on campus.
How many of that forty thousand need something today? How many need someone on their side? How many of these people brushing me as they walk to class, need someone to tell them it is going to be okay, that they can do this? How many of these people hiding behind their phones and computers, are going through their own personal hell right now? How many of these people just simply want to be noticed?
What if I stood at the doors of our library, and greeted just a few of those people to tell them they are loved.... What if I blindly did this to people, not just the people I felt comfortable talking to... but, any and all who walked through those doors.
What if?
What if this student body knew that they are not alone? What if I got out of my comfort zone, and assured someone today that what ever they are facing today, is not bigger than the creator of the universe?
What if?
What if the solution to the hopelessness, the pain, the darkness of this world... is YOU.
Yes, you reading this right now. Okay you may not be on campus with me today, shoot for that matter you may not even be in college. Maybe you are sitting at you desk today. Another boring Monday, and you are seeing the same kind of people that I see.
Those questions still ring true, and the answer is still the same answer.
God wants to use you today! Listen closely, he created you because he wants you, he needs you.
Matthew 4:18-20,
"Walking along the beach of Lake Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers: Simon (later called Peter) and Andrew. They were fishing, throwing their nets into the lake. It was their regular work. Jesus said to them, “Come with me. I’ll make a new kind of fisherman out of you. I’ll show you how to catch men and women instead of perch and bass.” They didn’t ask questions, but simply dropped their nets and followed."
To catch, is to Love.
"It was their regular work." School, is not glamorous. Work, not all that glamorous. It is regular.
But today is not a regular day. He is whispering to you to move. Will you do it?
This weekend I heard a sermon by Pastor Riley Short, in his message he said,
"We are called to be fishers of men. We get em, and he will clean em.
No judgement necessary. We have the easy part, simply love em!"
I feel like a major reason we are slow on the draw when we hear God telling us what to do, is because of judgement.
Who are we to judge? Who are we to question what kind of person needs or deserves this message?
I know from experience, even if someone looks like they have it all together on the outside, that means nothing. The saying "never let em see you sweat" comes out of my mouth more than it should (thats for another post... but!) I know I can't be the only one that tries to play everything off like my life is perfect.
No matter what that person looks like today, what they smell like, or even how they treat you. Don't let that hold you back from being a Fisher of Men and Women.
Don't let anything hold you back from loving on people today!
