HALF WAY THROUGH THE YEAR:: Shared By Joanne Pappa

We are now half way through the year and as individuals we may want to evaluate ourselves. Probably we have achieved what we wanted to, or maybe we haven’t. May be circumstances made us change course.

Halfway through gives us a chance to step back, evaluate our year so far with your goals and objectives (never mind the new year’s resolutions which likely didn’t last until February…) and to take action to get back on track if necessary. It’s a great opportunity to do some hard thinking over our finances, our diet, our career and other aspects of your life that you might want to improve. Make the second half of the year count!

As the pic says we may want to adopt New attitudes, New intentions, New goals, New battles, New Successes – be it if we have achieved, not achieved, been sidetracked or whatever else.

Genesis 11.31:

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there. 

Terah was Abraham’s dad. He apparently embraced the call of his son, Abraham, and started heading to Canaan. But he stopped half-way.

How often we do that? We stop half-way. The people of Israel stopped half-way at Kadesh-Barnea where they saw themselves as grasshoppers. (Don’t ever think of yourself as a grasshopper.) The Christians at Laodicea were half-way Christians. They were neither hot nor cold. They made God want to throw up. Don’t do that.

Supposing we have achieved that we set out to do, or have surpassed, we should not just sit back and relax. Start a new exciting thing – maybe pick a hobby you had put aside for a while.

As we do Lord this, let us not forget that we profess Christ and as such our success is tied to the Lord being with us. When we have the Lord with us then we will prosper. That does not mean that everything will go perfectly but we must remain faithful to God.

In Trying to Achieve or Accomplish what is left of this year Let us do so with Optimism, Trust, Faith & Love – Not Fear. And pray that God’s perfect will be done. All things will always work together for our good.