Good Day to Get Going

It’s Monday and it’s January 3rd.  The beginning of a new year, the beginning of a new week, the beginning of a new semester with Ignite Academy, the beginning of a transitional season for so many of us at very personal levels.  Allow me to share with you what is filling and impacting my head, my heart and my actions on this amazing day of new beginnings.  On this day in history the Protestant Reformation began with Martin Luther being excommunicated from the Catholic Church (1521); Washington routed Cornwallis at Princeton for the first Revolutionary War victory for the Americans (1777); construction began on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York (1870); The tomb of King Tut was discovered in Egypt (1924); The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio began (1938); Alaska was admitted into the US as the 49th State (1959)…  And I read Luke 3 where John the Baptist is preparing the way of the Lord, and Acts 3 where Peter and John raise up a lame man who had been in that condition since birth.

I’m going to trust in the Lord, wait on the Lord, lean on the Lord, feed on His faithfulness, delight in Him and Him in me, dwell in His presence, while He works His purpose and desires for me (Psalm 37:6).  Because it seems like a good day to discover something new, to step out for the right cause, to build something new, to continue forward in preparing the way of the Lord, to have a victory in battle, to look for the one person who could use a hand in getting up and walking for the first time in a long time…  If history repeats itself, then today sure is a good day to get up and get going!    Mike