Now and Later

This week, I want to encourage you to keep looking forward while at the same time keep your eyes open at what goes on around you now. What do I mean by that? I will tell you!

You have to keep a vision in front of you always - know what you want to achieve, when you want to achieve it, why you want to achieve it and have a plan for how you are going to do it. It is vital that you look ahead as that is where you are going.

But at the same time, look at where you are now. You must be constantly aware of what you do, what you don't do, what you eat and what you don't eat right now. Because what goes on NOW will have an affect on what you have (or don't have) down the road. Don't think for a moment that the NOW doesn't matter and that tomorrow you will do things differently. Tomorrow never comes - it is always NOW.

In the process, I also want to encourage you to...THINK! We have all heard the phrase "think before you speak". Well, I want to add another one on to that..."THINK before you ACT!"

That phrase can apply to anything in life but I want you to pay especially attentive to it in regards to your eating and exercising this week. If you will THINK before you ACT out on choosing the wrong item or eating when you aren't hungry or sitting in front of the TV instead of going for a walk or swim, then you just may make a different choice. That is part of the NOW!

Think NOW and keep your vision on LATER and you will become the person you desire to be!

"And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts." Romans 13: 11-14