College Student or College President
What's the difference in a typical male college student these days and a college president?
Well, besides an actual college degree and probably a Masters and/or Doctoral degree, the answer is quite simply:
Work Ethic.
Check out this short article from Eastern Kentucky University regarding a deal made on Twitter between a student and the EKU President:
If I were this student's Dad or Mom, I would be ashamed. While some may say this was just "all in fun," I think it speaks to a far deeper issue among young men today.
Laziness.
Why is that young, healthy college-aged man not shoveling his own driveway, as well as offering to shovel a few elderly neighbors' drives too? I wonder how that young man spent the day while his university president shoveled his snow? I'm sure he was studying hard and being highly productive.
Forgive my sarcasm. I do not know this young man. But I do know what is happening among young men in America is disturbing. Fatherlessness plays a huge role. Absentee fathers play a big role. But even still, at some point, men have to stand on their own two feet and "man up."
Go to the ant, O sluggard. Observe her ways and be wise, which having no chief or ruler, prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provision in the harvest. How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of hands to rest - Your poverty will come in like a vagabond and your need like an armed man (Proverbs 6:6-11).
Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love (1 Corinthians 16:13-14).
Church, we've got to love young men enough to call out their sinful laziness and maybe even put a size 10 against their backsides from time to time. If we do not, who will shovel snow and keep this country and her families and churches and communities and businesses running strong?
by Keith McWhorter