Today’s, and yesterday’s for that matter, quote of the day is “Der Zeit ist jetzt”  Translation?  “The time is now.”  The time for what?  It is time to start making serious headway in my academic development.  It is time to learn German; to seek out classes in German, German tutors, and to start researching the Septuagint through German articles and studies.  I am not getting any younger and it is not as growing older has increased my capacity for learning.  The time is now to press on to those things I have shied away from out of fear of failure.  The time is now to “…throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Heb 12:1).  For me this sin is squandered time (movies, tv, and sheer laziness).  The time is now for me to give myself and my time freely to God, my wife and family and my studies.