Tik Tok

So the countdown begins! The clock is ticking, and we have 4 short weeks before this summer takes off. Are you ready? I know...I know...We say, "Of course I'm ready...we just had an awesome weekend at orientation!" You couldn't be more correct about that. Orientation was so AWESOME. But will it carry you over? Hmmmmmmm.?.?!??! All too often we become excited about something to happen just to figure out that we are all emotions & no substance. It's like this...If you are camping, and during the night time it is cold, you want to find a way to stay warm. What better way than a campfire...right??? So you go gather wood for that fire in the morning, and at lunch build an awesome fire for that night. You go out for the day, and come back that night EXPECTING to be warm...but you find the fire has went out, then have to go find more wood in the dark. See that's the way it is for us. We can't just live off of the GREAT time we had at orientation. We must continue to build ourselves up in Christ! What will happen is that if we don't stay prayed up and into God's word, then when we get to Cherokee in a few weeks, we will have to be re-energized! Proverbs 26:20 says "...Without wood a fire goes out..." We must keep wood on the fire, otherwise we will have to go gather more wood in the DARK. It was easy to get the wood we needed in Clemmons this past weekend, because there was a lot of Godly light shining...but when we get to Cherokee, that spark will be much more of a challenge when we are not in that church setting of 60-70 other SummerShiners who are fired up! Even though you will have your AD's and fellow staffers to help you, still you must be ready to be the one who carries the contagious Christian attitude for yourself...then let it shine in a dark (secular) world!