If you thought the 5:00 club was only for wives and mothers serving their families, this college student just might change your perspective. She and her friends have several God-glorifying reasons for starting their own 6:00 club. And their example is provoking others to join as well. Read and be encouraged!
"As a graduate student I am very aware of sleep -- the need, desire, and idol it can and often does become during the semester. After reading your post on the 5:00 club, I was duly encouraged to get up in the morning. Not only was it an encouragement to get up and get things done in the morning, it spurred me on to desire to read my Bible in the morning and made me anxious to prepare myself for my future (God willing) family. In your post, the Lord opened my eyes to show me how beneficial it is to get up early...beneficial to my own soul and to my future husband and children.
I live with four other girls and after we all read this post, we decided to institute our own club for the purpose of change and growth. We formed the 6 o'clock club (we decided we didn't have enough to do if we got up at 5,and 6 seemed insanely early to us as is). For the past 3 days, we have gotten up at 6 am...we all check on each other to make sure we are awake and then proceed to our family room to do our devotions. At the moment, we've decided doing our devotions in the same room will serve us to hold us accountable to actually doing them and not falling asleep in the process.
It's great being able to start the day off with the Word and it is also enjoyable to be with my roommates before school. Not only has my house been transformed with a desire to get up in the morning, other girls from our campus ministry have the same desire. As we get up, we make about 3 phone calls to hold other girls accountable to getting up. We are hoping that the idea of being disciplined in the morning spreads like wildfire -- if it does, I think our lives will be transformed in a way that would make us more dependant on the word of God with hearts fixated on the cross.
So, thanks for your post on the 5:00 club. It has planted a greater thirst for the Word in our soul and has given us a desire to prepare for our future as perhaps a wife and mother. Slowly we are cherishing our mornings, and even though we are groggy at the outset, we look forward to much good fruit as we learn to become disciplined and place a greater importance on Scripture."
