If you are in college, you know how stressful everything can be while it seems like you are trying to get everything done at once. This week has been a stressful and uplifting type of week.
Last week, I committed to start co-leading a Bible Study on the campus of Mississippi College with Morrison Heights Baptist Church, because as Christians, we are called to be disciples of all nations and I felt lead by God to help lead a group of girls in a Bible Study. Matthew 28:19-20 explains more about the calling that Christians have, "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age" (HCSB).
This past week, Sarah Mawk, the leader of the Bible Study that I am co-leading with, and I started meeting for our Bible Study on Thursday that would start taking place every week during school. We were all ready to start and we were anxiously waiting for some girls to arrive, and as several minutes passed, we realized that no one was going to show up. Sarah and I became discouraged, but we decided to get a lesson prepared for the next week's Bible Study because for the first meeting, we decided to just get to know each other since it was the first time meeting with different girls.
At the beginning of this past week, I started having doubts flow through my mind about the Bible Study. I started doubting why I was even doing it if nobody was going to show up to it. At the time, I was becoming stressed about homework and some tests and the other commitments that I committed to throughout the week while school is going on. I started doubting why I was even co-leading a Bible Study because I was already apart of one and possible another one with some other girls. I started thinking about how I could use that time during the Bible Study to do homework or become caught up on some other stuff that needed to be done. I tried to keep reminding myself that these doubts that I was having was Satan wanting me to doubt these things and drift away from God. I kept reminding and I still do have to remind myself to this day, that God has called me to co-lead the Bible Study and that everything that I do every day is suppose to glorify Him and not myself. I have been reminded of the passage from Matthew that I stated at the beginning of the article about making disciples.
I was also reminded about a passage from Hebrews 10:35-36, which states, “So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised" (HCSB). These verses reminded me that I need to trust in God's will that He has for me and that I need to let God do what only He can do in my life. I was reminded of that several of different times throughout this week!
When we had our Bible Study meeting this week, we had six girls to show up! God worked during the time we had for Bible Study, and I could not have asked for a better group of girls to start the semester with and hopefully, we will have more girls to show up as the semester goes on.
As you are stressed about school with homework, tests, clubs/tribes you are wanting to or going to be a part of, extra curricular activities you are committed to, or anything else, let all that stress go from it and let God do what only He can do. As Christians, the only thing we can do is let God do whatever the plan He has for us in our lives. It is always going to be hard to follow God's commands that He has for our lives, especially when we do not see why He has us do certain things for His Kingdom, but we just have to trust in Him and know that in end, what we have done for Him we will receive glory and what He has promised for us.
