You are on the eve of something great.

Really, you are.

Today is just a foreshadowing of something great tomorrow. That's why I say you are on the eve of something great.

That's true on any given day.

But it is especially true today.

After all, tomorrow is a special day. I'm certain you have it marked on your calendar.

It is my birthday! See, you are on the Eve of something great. And not just that it is year 51. I've now completed the first year of the second half of the century that I'm shooting for!

And not only that, tomorrow deer season opens! So I really do feel like I'm on the eve of something great! Birthday! Deer Season! How awesome is that?

Paul had an experience where he was on the eve of something great. Just after Saul/Paul's amazing conversion, read what happens in Acts 9:

Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. 20 At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.21 All those who heard him were astonished and asked, "Isn't he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And hasn't he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?" 22 Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.

23 After many days had gone by, there was a conspiracy among the Jews to kill him, 24 but Saul learned of their plan. Day and night they kept close watch on the city gates in order to kill him. 25 But his followers took him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall.

He was on the eve of something great. He was afraid he was on the eve of something disastrous! He was literally being hunted! So someone came up with the idea that the best option was to sneak Saul/Paul out of town. They wanted to save his neck! But they saved far more than that! They saved his legacy. It was the eve of something great.

By the way, all this talk of hunting, half a century, sneaking Paul out of the city ... reminded me that on occasion you really do need to get away.

So, I'm going on vacation for a bit. You'll still get your prayer journals, but I'm on the eve of something great ... so I'm headed to the woods.

I'll "meet" you there next week ...