Time
Time. We have too much of it when we don’t want it, but we never have enough when we need it. Time, for most of us, always seems to be against us. It steals away those moments with loved ones; those few and far between minutes of relaxation are gone in a blink. Our youth is gone before we know it and our time on earth is ticking away second by second. James tells us that “you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes” (James 4:14). This used to be my dad’s favorite verse to use from the pulpit. It reminds us that there is an urgency we have to live a life of faithfulness and the promise that our worldly troubles are temporary.
This kind of makes one think about their life: what they’ve done, where they are going. Hopefully it encourages you to make the best of the unknown number of years you have. Hopefully there will be times of joy and laughter, and equally important sadness and tears; for these are the times we grow the most. Time is something we have little of and can never gain. Now, this isn’t a blog meant to depress you. My hope is that you will come to find the sweetness of a second, the beautiful fragrance of an hour, or the refreshment of a minute.
But does it end there? Is that it? All this time we’ve been savoring the seconds and trying to do the best we can in life, and now it’s just the end? Far from it, the only thing that has ended is the beginning… the beginning of eternity. May we recognize that our trust is put into the hands of God, and He will raise us up to be with Him forever. Time can take away our life on this small blue planet, but our God has bigger and better things for us; things that time cannot wither. However, we have a job here, to be done right now. And no matter the journey you take through life, the ups and downs you’ll face, always remember this is just the beginning.
“But from this earth, this grave, this dust, my God shall raise me up I trust” – Even Such Is Time by Sir Walter Raleigh