It’s normal to reflect.
Consider the days, weeks, and months,
What worked and what didn’t,
Try to do better in the upcoming season.
Have a goal? Made a Resolution?
Did you know the second Friday of next year
It has a name you can search and find.
It’s called Quitters Friday.
That’s about how long good intentions last.
What’s wrong with that?
It didn’t work? At least I tried.
I’m tired of picking things up that are never completed.
Imagine an election cycle that has no end.
Or a battle that never stopped.
Consider that we all begin and end each day.
That proves it. We aren’t quitters!
Then what are we?
Poor planners? Lousy dreamers?
Or maybe we don’t have what it takes
To finish everything we thought we wanted to do.
The apostle Paul said,
“This one thing I do…” and then
He named the facets of his focus.
Forget the past, reach forward, press on…
Not that I have already attained,
or am already perfected;
but I press on,
that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended;
but one thing I do,
forgetting those things which are behind
and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 3:12-14 NKJV)
One translation describes this from a runner’s perspective – I [keep] running
Another seems to relate to a race with an uncertain pace – I strive.
Martin Luther King said, “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving.”
Maybe that’s my thought this morning.
Pick up and test what will work, but drop it quickly if it’s not a proven path. Whatever you do, whether it works or doesn’t, don’ get stuck in a rut. Press on!