It is January! Praise the Lord! Can''t you feel the excitement and energy as we tear off the last page of the 2006 calendar and began the year of  2007?

Did I hear someone say, "Baloney? Big deal! So what! Did the preacher come back again from one of those New Life Missions or Spiritual Retreats? Didn''t anybody tell the preacher just because we changed the calendar, we didn''t change the circumstances that existed on December 31?"

Greek mythology has the image of "Time" being likened to a person, with long hair in the front and bald in the back. The picture is of one you must catch coming towards you because once it has passed nothing is left to grab hold of.

The January, 1992, edition of the Daily Bread Devotional guide says, "The month of January is named after JANUS, the Roman God of B…