Does the Sun find you still in bed, morning after morning, year after year? The Bible records, “Very early in the morning, when it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went to a solitary place where He prayed” (Mk.1:35). Before Jesus met with men and got busy with His interactions with them, He made sure He met with His Father alone. He did this regularly.

Galatia is an urgent pastoral letter written to a specific cluster of churches at a moment of crisis. Paul received a message about the preaching of different Gospel by Jewish Christian missionaries in Galatia (Gal.1:6), and they were seeking to persuade the Gentile Christians to be circumcised (Gal.5:2-4; 6:12-13). They were teaching that the Gentiles should take the next step into full covenant membership by being circumcised.

Everybody likes ‘new beginnings’, fresh starts! Having said that, I also believe in continuity and faith-fullness to the task at hand or, in the way I sign off my letters - ‘Pressing On’. There is much value in ‘positive, forward thinking’.