God the Rock

Okay, this is a post of encouragement and teaching to primarily college students (which most of my friends fall in that category) but I think all of us need this.

I used to say, and still believe, that every semester of college is completely different than the last. There may be some similarities, but for the most part it is a completely new life. This is one of the facets of college life. Every semester you have new classes, new schedules, new friends. You don't eat with the same people at the same time at the same place because it just doesn't work like it did the semester before. And that's fine.

My only problem with this advice fell upon graduation. Okay, it's great to know that each semester will be different, but I am entering the real world where each year is the same with minor changes. Quite the opposite of college, so why is this a good thing to learn in college??? Because the biggest change is when you leave college.

here comes my rant:

While you are in college, whether you are graduating in May or just started last fall, you must strive to make God the core. God must be the Rock in your life. All that you are must be built on the Rock that is God. In fact, I will give it as a command: Build your foundation, your core, on God. This isn't an investment option.This is a necessity. Because when you get out of college everything, EVERYTHING changes. Nothing stays the same. People change, places change, schedules change, everything changes. But God.

God never changes. He is, and was, and will be forever. He is constant in an ever changing life. He is a strong rock.

And if you build your foundation on Him, when everything around changes, your core wont. It cant. If all of your life is grounded in God, and God doesn't change, your life doesn't get turned over. Things will still change, and it will still be difficult, but you will still be strong in God.

If you don't build yourself on God, your life will fall apart. It has to. All that you ever knew changes, and nothing is stable if  don't build on God.

So for everyone in college, please spend whatever time you have remaining building on the Rock. Setting solid paths and groundwork for your life in the only unchanging person. Learn to cling to God with everything and never let go. That is what it is all about.