Spring Break?

It is a wonderful week! No matter when it falls, lots of students and teachers are happy when spring break occurs. Plans are made. Trips are taken. Rest is recouped. Spring break is great.

But have you ever considered that there are some things that don’t stop for spring break? A person who is sick isn’t magically cured just because it is spring break. A person serving a jail sentence doesn’t get a week off. Your bills aren’t postponed for a week. Dust keeps forming in the house; grass keeps growing; clothes get dirty.

And then there are things from which you never take a break. Some in the earlier list apply here. But I want to consider bigger things:

• Being a parent – I’m a parent and have responsibilities to teach and guide my children.
• Serving others – as a Christian, I am to live my life with the idea of serving others in order for them to see Christ.
• And then there is the concept of my Christianity. That doesn’t – or shouldn’t – take a break ever. Not on spring break, not around certain friends, not when I travel, not ever. After all, God never takes a break from caring about me. Why should I take a break on Him?

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9:23)

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. (Psalm 16:8)

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AUTHOR: Amber Tatum