2012 – a race to be run.
Phl 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Phl 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2011 has past and before us lays a new year 2012, 12 months, 52 weeks, 8 765.81277 hours to be exact. That’s a lot of time! Jesus said, I must be about my Father’s business? Luke 2:49.
Paul’s words of pressing toward the mark, are taken from the final lunge of the athlete for the tape. Anyone who has had any dabbling in athletics will know the golden rule at that time is one simple thing. Don’t look to the right or to the left but look straight ahead. It’s the words that the Lord spoke to Joshua as he was taking the spiritual baton of leadership from the hands of Moses. What a significant moment, what shoes to fill?
Jos 1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
There we have the words in black and white on how to literally have a prosperous New Year in 2012.
So, January 1, 2012, the starting gun will fire and before you will lay challenges, opportunities, trials, victories and growing pains. Don’t be distracted by anything around you, keep your eyes on the Lord, be courageous to do the will of God and God will look after your year and have you prosper before Him!