A lot of kids/young people are going back to school, college or university. I’m starting university next week (exciting!) Every year when I go back to school or college, I have these great intentions of keeping my week organised in a diary, getting everything done, and not falling back on my assignments. That idea usually goes out the window by the second day (oops!).
Keeping your week organised is super important and of course, makes life a lot less stressful. So keeping a diary or calendar can be really helpful (your phone even comes with one). People can often make excuses for not keeping to their plans though, can’t they? Being tired, making other plans, homework are some of the ones I’ve used before. And how often do we make excuses for not going to prayer meetings or young people’s meetings or things like that? I read about an idea that could be really useful in making sure we keep to THOSE plans, especially. For example, if there was a meeting you had put in your calendar, write next to it Acts 2:42: ‘Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.’
Wouldn’t that verse challenge your priorities and silence your excuses?
