MATTHEW 26:41
College kids are notorious for partying. We are “let loose” in college and (drum roll please) freed from our parents! We can finally make our own decisions, and we don’t have to answer an angry parent when we get home at three in the morning. When we’re young, our parents basically established morals for us. For example, I was not allowed to watch R-rated movies or have coed sleepovers. But now I am on my own—I make my own decisions! And that is where the chaos can begin. As new college students, we must ask God to show us Biblical guidelines to follow; important things that we will not compromise on. We need to figure out how to make good decisions without our parents watching us, so that we can be good Christians and live a good example for others to see. I Corinthians 8:9 says, “But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.” God wants us to have fun and be crazy sometimes, but not to the point where we’re causing ourselves and others to get into trouble. We should enjoy the freedoms of college, but not allow those freedoms to drag us away from the true freer—God.
Amber Van Osdol, 18, Hanover College, Hanover, IN
I have learned a lot about You from other people, Lord, and
I am glad. But help me to live these lessons even when I’m on my own, with no one to keep me accountable.