SYATP

7 AM students began to circle around the flag pole in prayer. When I arrived at 7:02 there were about 15ish people and it at least doubled in size with 3ish teachers participating as well. It was encouraging to see students, many of whom I didn’t know, gather together boldly praying to Christ.

On the radio I heard of a girl who was the only girl at her school praying which was discouraging and encouraging at the same time. Saddening due to the fact that no one was their to support her but awesome since she had the courage to stand there alone. Unfortunately I heard of a local school in Phoenix who had absolutely no students there. I’m not saying there are no Christians there, and its not like you are not a strong believer if you don’t go, so now I’m not to sure why I said unfortunately. We have a Christian group at our school called The Refuge, formerly Youth Alive, that headed this event and really publicized it. I think that every school should have some way of uniting together in Christ’s name.

On that note I really hope for Refuge to grow because although we had a large amount of students at the pole, few participate in the group which mostly consists of a Wednesday morning worship session followed up by a speaker. It is a beautiful way to start the morning. Unfortunately I think it is all too common for Christians, specifically high schoolers, to act as if Sunday is God’s day, and maybe even Saturday, but then Monday-Friday school and other stuff is the top priority and God is forgotten. I know I have sinned in my time management and I use mornings like on Wednesday to help give time to Him. I also attempt to go to a Wednesday night Bible Study, and I also have a Romans study on Tuesday mornings. Again, unfortunately, I believe I have been using these as the only means to put God into my schedule during the week. I am not having my daily devotions and (as talked about in my last blog) misused my time. I still adamantly believe that we should be actively involved in Christ centered groups especially ones that try to spread The Word throughout the school like The Refuge, but it is not a replacement for my individual one-on-one time with God. This is what I need to work on.

Another unfortunately, I have noticed that only doing things when I’m in a group is not isolated to my time with God, although that is probably the worst area, but it is also with running, hence Cross Country, and with studying for tests and other school work. I pretty much will not run if it is by myself there needs to be another person or else I just won’t bother to do it. Same goes with preparing for tests or doing homework. I just don’t get around to it unless I can plan a study group or something of the sort. It is pretty unfortunate that I am unable to find that internal motivation. It wasn’t always like this, more so since high school, when my grades and work ethic started to slide. So I need to stimulate my motivation for school and such but more importantly I need to let my fire for God grow.

I have found that I often feel like leaving feedback on blogs I read, sometimes disagreements or just comments or whatever and so I shall often end my blogs with a question just to allow people to be able to comment if they wish. Do you think this is a okay decision =P ?