a year goes by...

Has it really been since before December since my last post? How time flies. That is kind of how I have felt lately. Time just gets away from me? But is that really a bad thing? God has really been challenging me lately with the concept of giving him my time. I think we often look at America and think that the one thing they covet more than anything is their possessions, but I am starting to disagree with that. I think the thing we covet more than anything is our time.

Since Maddie has been working at Starbucks, I hear stories of people who don't know how to wait in a line. I think of the evolution of videogames, to where now the most popular games can be purchased for $.99 and downloaded straight to your phone and when they are meant to be played for a few moments in between important times in your day.

I don't know, it just seems like time rules everything we do. Just like everything we covet, God wants us to give that over to him. What would it look like if we stopped coveting our time and started offering our time sacrificially?

I was in front of my student ministry a couple of weeks ago and it hit me. I have spent one year with these students. I started last March. Where has the time gone? I have poured out my time into so many things over the past 5 months, from my marriage to my student ministry, that (even though I spend time with these students) I wonder if I am really giving God the time he deserves. I guess the answer is, unless I can say I have given Him all of it...then I am probably not.