Good v. God?

Sunday Morning, I threw out my little saying, "We must learn to say no to the good things in order to say yes to the God things."

Here's some students who are teaching me right now.

Robby has been growing his hair out for over a year now. It's gotten to be quite the thing of noteriety. It's kind of what he's known for. He plays soccer, and we all know that long hair is a great thing to have as a soccer player. Sure, it's just hair, but it's a pretty sweet thing to take a year to grow your hair out. He didn't really want to cut it.
He's decided that raising money for the Maasai tribe (God, yes) is more important than his image (good, no). He's auctioning off the rights to cut his hair. The highest bid is currently at $125. You should go bid more right now!

Andrew (pictured with the knitted items)has been doing a ton of work on the side of coordinating our Auction. We had all the stuff collected, but needed to organize, categorize, and set up the stuff for on-site and the web. Andrew came in at 10:00 am to the church on Saturday. He left at 9:30 pm that night. He said no to his normal Saturday Night (good thing) to say yes to going the extra mile to see Maasai Night happen (God thing).

There's another student who I won't name right now. He's been in on the vision of Maasai night since the beginning, and his playing a significant role in various parts of the night. He called me this afternoon and told me that due to the snow day, his basketball game was cancelled. It's been rescheduled for tomorrow night. As he told me, I began to let him know that we can do what we can to get others to fulfill his role. He stopped me, and just said, "I'm going to have to call my coach and tell him I can't be at the game."
Whaaaa????
I let him know that I in no wanted him to feel obligated to be at Maasai Night. His response was, "I've invested two months of planning into this night. I can't miss this opportunity to invest in the kingdom because a basketball game."
I prayed with him for wisdom and clarity from God on what the right choice was for him. Do I think he should be here or at the game tomorrow night?
I don't know.
But I know that I was challenged in that moment by a student who was taking time to seek out which opportunity is the God thing, and which is the good.
Whatever he eventually decides, I know he has sought first the Kingdom.

Today, I'm challenged and humbled by the students I work with.