Moving Forward in 2019

Happy New Year! Can you believe we've moved into 2019 already?  The older we get it seems like time zooms by quicker and quicker with each passing year. Wouldn't it be great if there were only a pause button?

Ahhh, if we could just re-live the "good old days".  Although we can't freeze or preserve our favorite moments in time, like a canning jar they're sealed up tight right inside our hearts. The good news is we don't have to look back longingly, because your latter days will be greater than your past.  (Haggai 2:9)

Every good thing in our past can be used as "stepping stones" towards something greater. 😃

Time doesn't go backwards it's always moving forward. That means our best times are in front of us, not behind us. Every sixty seconds another minute goes by.  Minutes turn to hours - which become days, days become months, which grow into years. This isn't a bad thing. It all depends on how we look at it.  

Yesterday is over. The bad stuff is behind us. Don't drag it to another day. In other words, if we had a bad day, or even what seems like an awful year, so what. Let it go.  Don't "get stuck in the past". We don't even have to look back. Wer'e not going that way. Take all the good and "carry it over". We are promised better things!  We've got a bright path ahead of us.  Proverbs 4:19 says this: "The path of the just is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter, until the full light of day".

That means, that your future, which is as close as the next minute, will become brighter and brighter and brighter! Doesn't that make you smile! 

Let me share something good with you. On the morning of New Years Day 2019 I was putting on my wrist watch and glanced at it in a peculiar way. I was puzzled for a moment thinking "do I need to set my watch ahead"? Like Daylight Savings Time or something. "Oh, it's New Years Day, I don't need to adjust my watch".

As I thought about it further I realized that something spiritual had occurred. My year had changed, and so did "the time in the spirit". It's a "New Spiritual Year".  Not just for me, but for you as well. It's sort of  like Spring-forward, but we've gained much more than just an hour!

I believe that God is bringing forth dreams and manifesting His bounty more quickly than we've imagined.  

He's moved His "clock ahead" in such a way that He's speeding things up for our good. And I believe it's approaching fast. 

If we look ahead in such a way and expect Gods' promises to be expedited, we'll anticipate each day with joy, knowing full well that He who promised is faithful to bring it to pass. If there's a dream inside you that's living, it shall soon be birthed. In order to keep the dream alive, you must feed it with hope. 

Look for God inside of every second, and every minute of every week. He never leaves. Seek Him every month, keep finding Him- all year long, even throuout eternity... what astonishing Light we will see up ahead. Our outlook for tommorow is good! We may not be able to freeze time, or "capture it in a bottle" but we have something much better, we can fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.  

We'll see the brightness of His coming, we'll see His word coming to pass, we'll see our future so exceedingly bright and illuminated with Gods love. We we're never meant to have a dull day or a dull life. 

As we approach the next minute, look for Jesus. Just the mention of His Name changes everything.

2019 and beyond is full of promise. You're not waiting on God, He's waiting on you. He is your compass, move forward in Him.  💖