Friday Devotion

Today's devotion is shared by Hannah Creech:

Hello fellow LCMers and friends!

Well, here we are on the cusp of exam week once again. I don’t know about you, but this is about the time when I start panicking and locking myself in a cubicle with obscenely large stacks of notecards for hours at a time.  It’s in times like these that I find comfort in knowing that, contrary to how I feel as I’m imprisoned in my study cell, I will survive the week and most likely won’t end up in a castle of cardboard, playing the banjo on the street for food. 

James 1:2-4 says:

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

This verse comforts me because it reminds me that many times the hardest things we go through are some of the things that ultimately make us the strongest we can be.  After all, people always say “what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.”  While it may seem like you won’t survive the next week or will fail all of your finals, just remember that you can do it and you will be better off at the end of it! So delay the ground breaking for your cardboard mansion and start preparing yourself for the coming week! But remember this helpful saying:

Exams may come and go, marks may come and go…

But once you go mad, you will be mad forever…

So be careful and study in limits!

Good Luck and have a great week!

Hannah