two months left

Come Thursday, 2012 has two months left. That doesn’t seem like much. All the plans, all the dreams, all the change that we planned for 2012 and we have two months left. But two months, 60 days, is enough time to do lots of things.

  • If you are Nehemiah, two months is enough time to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and still have a week for the holidays.
  • If you are a couch potato, two months is enough time to prepare to run a 5K race.
  • If you can write one note a day (and have $27), you can send encouragement to 60 people (or send seven people a note every week for eight weeks).
  • If you can read 20 pages a day, you can read most of the Bible, 3 four hundred page books, or one theology book four times.
  • If you can afford one fifty-cent coffee a day, you could skip it and give $30 to a kid you know who isn’t going to get anything else for Christmas.
  • If you can clean out a drawer a day, in two months your house can be cleaned out and you can take a ton of stuff to Goodwill.
  • If you can listen to God for two minutes a day, in two months you can have two hours worth of conversation.
  • If you can do 10 pushups a day, you can do 600 pushups.
  • If you can apologize to one person a day, two months is enough time to rebuild a whole network of relationships.
  • If you can read three psalms out loud every day, you can read through the entire book of Psalms, can experience more emotions than you ever thought were in the Bible, and can miss a couple days without feeling guilty.

So what could you do a bit at a time in the rest of this year?

3 thoughts on “two months left

  1. Rich Dixon's avatar

    Rich Dixon

    But I want the BIG event, the miracle, the life-changing turnaround. And I want it all at once. And NOW. We celebrate Nehemiah as a man of action, but when he heard about the disrepair in Jerusalem he prayed and fasted for about FOUR MONTHS before approaching the king.

    In four months my new technology will be outdated. But maybe God works on a different timetable.

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