There is an indispensible factor deeply intertwined in 21st century American society. It holds numerous blessings but also unnecessary burdens. God declared it good when created. However, though created to be good it has been tainted and marred by man’s sinful nature. The benefits of this factor are disciplined living, planning for the future, organizing, scheduling, setting deadlines, and getting things done. The marred aspects of this factor are self-focused lifestyles, sacrificing of relationships for routine and goal achievement, and setting of temporal goals for temporal rewards. Do you know what this factor is?
It is called time!
Time is quite incorrigible. Nothing changes it from its designed purpose. No tyrant can sway it. No president can have it vetoed. Time is time and can be no different. With perfect amicability, it operates inside the guidelines of it’s Creator. There is never a lingering, never a retreat, and never a complacent moment. Whether experiencing a peaceful night or amidst a hectic day – time assiduously accomplishes it’s task. The sprinter hopes it will be slower. The weary young traveler wants it faster. The busy person demands more. The sluggard wishes it would stop. Yet time never has and never will bend and flex to the frivolous notions of man. It’s adverse to any manipulation.
Have you ever considered that time is always on time? Never a second too late nor a second too early. It’s responsibilities are simple and understandable. The parameters firmly fixed. Because of these facts, time is never overwhelmed with too much to do in too little of time. Neither is there a reaction to those not keeping up with its momentum. On the contrary, it just keeps setting the standard for others to follow. Whether ticking on the wall, digitized on your wrist, or keeping in motion with the fiery sun, time does it’s work faithfully and consistently. It’s a dependable factor of life performing it’s role in accordance with the designs of it’s Creator.
You and I would do well to often contemplate this valuable factor called time. Especially as Christians, when we view it through the framework of faith. Realizing that all occurring in time is subject to Him who is not subject to time. Furthermore, it is God that divinely predestined us before time, establishes us in His grace to live through time, and then builds in us a lasting hope for the end of time; where we will enjoy an heavenly habitation situated in the liberty of timeless eternity.
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” (Ec 3:1)
“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” (Eph 5:16)
“And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth… that there should be time no longer:” (Rev. 10:6)
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