October is almost finished. In no time, this year will be over and our thoughts will be focused on 2019. So before we get caught in the force of that end-of-year current, let’s reflect on what we wanted to see happen in 2018. What goals or resolutions did you set for this year? Have you accomplished them? Are you close?
Some of the goals I set for this year were easily achievable in a whole year, but are impossible in two months. Now I have a choice. I can shrug them off and start thinking of next year, or I can start on them today.
If those goals were important enough for me to make at the beginning of the year, aren’t they worth working on for the next two months? I may not be able to make the goal, but I can make progress.
What goals did you make this year: exercise more, lose weight, start saving, go to church? Today is a new day. Using the analogy of rest to describe our relationship with God, the Bible tells us: “So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God. So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is today.” (Hebrews 4:6–7, NLT) Today is a new day.
