I refuse to be a victim.

     For me there are three weeks between Thanksgiving break and Christmas break. Those three weeks are almost unbearable. All my friends at school would agree, I think. ;) I love school, but I have a lot this year. And breaks are definitely needed. Sometimes I allow myself to obsess over those breaks. I even remember thinking the week before Thanksgiving break this year: "Only one week until break. I don't have to try hard this week - I'm close enough to a week of no school, anyway."

Today I burned that way of thinking. I refuse to be a victim.

     This is my school. My work. My responsibility. I will not go about my duties halfheartedly, hypocritically, half-awake. I won't cut corners. I have all of God's strength in my soul - I am able to meet standards and do well.

     I have one more week until Christmas break. This week will not go like the last week-before-break. I will work. I will sleep. I will eat. All to the glory of God.

How thoughtless of us to do anything less than our best! Think of who we live for!

     There is no condemnation in Jesus. I don't shouldn't feel guilty when I fail, because Jesus has already won for me. In light of this, I should be inspired to love and please the one that freed me to do so.
 
Refuse to be a victim and draw upon the immeasurable strength that is in Jesus today.

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