The Clock is Ticking

I don't know about you, but for me this last year or so has gone by so fast. Between switching schools and becoming a student leader Ive come to realize that life truly is just a vapor as the Bible says it is. Its made me look back on last school year and see if i actually made a difference. It forced me to ask the question that if i disappeared at midnight tonight, would anyone notice? Would anyone care? I hope someone would notice and that someone would care. But I'm sick of hoping. i want to make a difference. and we dont have much time. The clock is ticking. Life is but a vapor. when its gone, its gone. How do we do this? By setting a true Christian example to the people around us. That is what I am going to be trying to do this upcoming school year and for the rest of the summer. But we cant be dragged in to what Satan is trying to trap us with. He wants to see us waste the time that God has given us. He sees that one of the greatest gifts God has given us is time. Because as long as we are still breathing, we can change the world. So dont be drawn into time wasters. everyone has different time wasters. John Piper explains social networking pretty clearly when he says " One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time."  Im not saying Facebook or Twitter is bad or that we should all stop doing that. But basically a time waster or a "idol" (as ive explained in a previous blog post) is anything that we place more importance on then God. Believe me, nothing is more important than God! So if we give Him our highest priority and just love Him more then anything else, He will shape us into the people that He wants us to be. and ultimately, that will change the world.