It's Saturday now, a day where I can feel rested and productive, relaxed and peaceful. Ahh. The weekdays are so hectic. I'm around people too much. I have a lot of work to do, and not much time in which to do it. But even though I'm almost cringing while saying this, I'm going to say it anyway. Don't live for the weekends. Yes I know it's that time of year in the middle of the second half. It's hard and life gets weary. Yes I know that weekends are when we catch that extra sleep. When we finally have the time for catching up on homework or even prayer life. Yes I know that Saturdays are needed for productivity and Sundays are needed for rest. But it's not the only time we live. Although I feel that way, and you probably do too. I feel like weekends are the only time I can actually sit down and breathe, when I can somewhat choose my own schedule and do what I want and do what I need to do. (Sounds selfish doesn't it..?) I love weekends too much and often on Monday I think "I can't wait until Friday!" Especially right now. I'm struggling through the slosh of life and am barely making it through. It's life though. Most of the time it's hard-going, slow-moving, depression-making..with breaks few and far between. But breaks are not the only time we live! We are alive on the other times. We are alive in the middle of a chemistry test. We are alive when we don't feel like doing our overdue math homework. We are alive all the time, but how often do we use that time for God? How often do we do what we do for the glory of God? Because God cares if we do our best. God cares about the small stuff in our lives. God knows everything, basically. It's the little things.Whether it's giving a smile to that girl who you don't feel like talking to, or taking the time to look up and see God's creation, or stopping to chat with that weird math teacher, OR.... actually going above and beyond on your homework...... The little things matter. I've always thought that if I just get through my schooling and get through the muddled homework and assignments and classes, then I can really live. But then in Bible class we read the book Do Hard Things and it encouraged us little measly teens to go farther than expectations. We are living now. Right now our homework may seem stupid but it's actually important to our future life. I've heard that what we do in the teen years will change our future. I wholeheartedly agree. I just recently found a quote I wrote in my journal a couple years ago... Big things may change the course of your life, but it's the little things that decide which direction it goes. Don't live for next summer or the next break off school, dreaming of wants and complacent on needs. Live now. Stay strong.Even in the most randomly hard part of the year, I encourage you to not give up. I encourage you to do your best. I encourage you to do hard things even when you don't feel like it. I'm actually encouraging myself right now as I type. Oh and I encourage you to memorize this verse. Tape it up somewhere and always remember WHY you live, WHO you live for, and WHAT you are doing for Him. "And whatever you do, work heartily, as to the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance, for you serve the Lord Christ." Colossians 3:23-24 Whatever you do. Even if it seems small now, because we are not grown up yet. Because working hard on little things will enable you to do BIG things. And it's not like they don't matter for God's Kingdom. Everyone has a part. God wants to use you too! You have so much potential.
Witness to family and friends, neighbors and cleaning ladies. Get everything you can out of church and school. Take detailed notes to help you remember and plan out the next steps for your life. Apply what you have learned in school and church and from life experiences. Develop a close relationship with Jesus because he's the only one who can help you through life. Keep looking to Jesus in the hard times and the easy times. And make every moment count. Live now.
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