TICK. TICK. TICK.
2,592,000 SECONDS
of 2024
have been LIVED by you.
How has your January been so far?
Did you eat the spinach and not the cookie?
Did you run a mile, instead of watching tv?
Did you ___________ instead of _________?
Are you already tired of Winter
and
looking forward to Spring,
so that
Summer will be closer,
so that
you can enjoy Fall,
so you can get ready for
Christmas,
so that
you can then
start your life over again in January.
TICK. TICK. TICK.
Today you have your last
86,400 SECONDS
of January
to spend in any way that you choose.
SECOND by SECOND.
So how are you going to LIVE them
before
you
enter into
FEBRUARY~
the shortest month,
the groundhog day month,
the LOVE month,
the LEAP year month,
for where there is a bonus day
of 86,400 more SECONDS to live.
BUT
to not only LIVE,
but to take a LEAP.
TO LEAP
is a
FORWARD MOTION~
"FORGETTING what lies behind
and straining forward to what lies ahead..."
TO LEAP is to keep jumping with excitement~
"I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of
GOD in CHRIST JESUS" (Philippians 3:13-14)
Because
TO LEAP
makes you purposely jump over hurdles
to go to a place
that you have never SEEN before,
but you are way too excited to stay in the same place
because you know that it is a place
for where you have to go.
So you take the
LEAP OF FAITH~
"Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses]" (Hebrews 11:1).
For FAITH SEES what
GOD desires for you to
SEE
in EVERY SECOND~
"Finally, _______________ (put your name)
whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by GOD'S word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, _______________,
think continually on these things
[center your mind on them, _____________,
and implant them in your heart]...". *
But it doesn't stop here.
For LEAPING is a continuous ACTION~
"The things which you, _____________, have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things [in daily life],
and the GOD [who is the source] of peace and well-being will be with you, ____________" (Philippians 4:8-9).
So will you join me and
use your last
86,400 SECONDS
of January
by taking
A LEAP OF FAITH
to
"FORGET what is behind"
by FORGIVING
yourself for _________
and
by FORGIVING someone else for ___________
and even FORGIVING GOD for _____________.
And take A LEAP OF FAITH
in
"STRAINING FOWARD what lies ahead"
by
FACING your FEAR of __________
by
doing what you need to do
by
doing what you need to stop doing
so that
you WILL LIVE as who GOD created you to be.
TICK. TICK. TICK.
For the TIME is NOW, because you only have NOW.
Therefore,
make every SECOND count today
by LIVING it with THE ONE who gives you
"EVERY SECOND"
(listen to the song below)
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