"For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." (2 Timothy 1:7)
This is probably one of my favorite verses in the entire Bible, and it's one I quote more often than any other. Whether aloud, to someone else, or to myself, it's a constant reminder of what we, as Christians, hold tightly in our hands -- power and love and self-discipline.
It's the verse I quietly murmured to myself the entire drive to my sister's school. It was early morning, dreary, and cold, and I wanted nothing more than to curl back up in my bed and catch a few more Z's. I knew it was See You At The Pole day -- a rather i