Makin' Time.

Good morning everyone!
(Seriously, it's 5:28am...)

I am actually working on another blog post but felt called to post this one now.

This past week has been so busy.
Let's see.

Homework. Of course.
End of 9 weeks = every teacher wants more points so they pound out the work, leaving students frustrated and stressed and having a ton of work.
Math test, English test, History essay due, make up gym, homework, study for History and Chemistry test, try not to fail anything.

The weekend:
Friday- Got home at 2:50. Babysat 3-4:30. Cleaned/Packed, slept over grandparents 6ish-pm. Stayed up til 2am.
Saturday- Went straight from grandparents' house to Harvest Party, 3-9. Babysat 7-11. Got home at 11:30. Exhausted. Sleep.
Sunday- Woke up, got ready, church. Got home after 1. Felt sick. Nap until 3. Helped my mom clean, family came over for Steeler game 4-8. 8pm... oh yeah, history test tomorrow and english homework due tomorrow. Do English homework. Try to study. Make my lunch for tomorrow. Exhausted. Bed.

I'm not telling you  my whole schedule to get pity or anything but I know we all have busy schedules like this and I thought it'd be more relate-able than if I just said "I was busy this week."

So my point in this is making time for God when you're extremely busy/exhausted.

Let me be the first to admit I am horrible at this.
I know how to do it, too. But I'm horrible at it.
But it's something God can fix in me, and you too cause I think we all struggle with this from time to time!

But here's how you do it:

Read your Bible/worship/pray in the morning.

Before your day gets busy.

It's really as simple as that.

Once when I was in kids' church, someone did this illustration:
They took a bowl. And they kept naming things they did that day. For everything they named, they put a scoop of sand in the bowl. When they were finished, the bowl was full of sand.
Then they took a ball, and called the ball spending time with God.
They tried to put it in the bowl, but there was no room for it.

Then they did it again.
But this time, they put the ball in first. And then scooped in all the sand.
And everything fit.

That's really how it works. Put God first and everything else will fall into place.

Get up a little earlier if you have to.

Put on some Hillsong or whatever gets you worshiping and get out your Bible and read. Maybe one chapter. Maybe one book. Maybe a couple different verses in different places.
Whatever works for you.

You're probably thinking,
"I'll be exhausted if I get up any earlier. I'm exhausted as it is."
Yeah that's my argument too.

But then I remember I'll be exhausted no matter what if I don't spend time with God first.
I won't be refreshed.
I won't be ready for the day!

Here's another idea: National Anthem Prayer!

It sounds really funny but I bet your school does this (If you go to school).
Every morning you have to stand there and listen to the national anthem.
Take that couple minutes to talk to God! Give him your day and everyone you  meet and everything you do, ask for boldness to speak his name, ask for protection for yourself and everyone else throughout the day, pray for the teachers, whatever comes to mind!
I started this last week and am loving it.
Just a thought!

If anyone else has ideas, comment them and I'll add them to this post!
This is definetely an idea we all need encouragement about.

Just put God first.

And everything else will fit.

"This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24
Worship Him with the day He made :)