When May 4 rolls around, the Ewellogy has been known to pay tribute to Star Wars: May the 4th Be With You. But not until my friend John Ed Mathison posted a blog last year, had I ever thought about “the only calendar day that’s a command:”

March 4th!

March Forth! It’s not a bad word.

…but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3.13, 14, NKJV)

Sounds like March Forth to me! What’s the alternative?

I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man. Proverbs 24.30 – 34, ESV)

Let’s not be like that!

The righteous keep moving forward and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger. (Job 17:9, NLT)