It has been a taxing last couple of days, Father, and with the time change and it being dark already I am ready to crash. Help me to focus, not on my weariness, but on You. Amen.

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This past Sunday saw the end of Daylight Savings Time for this year. I couldn’t help but think of the comment an old Native American made when told the reason for it. He said, “Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of the blanket, sew it onto the bottom of the blanket, and you’d be left with a longer blanket.”

I know at one point in time (over 100 years ago) there were reasons for setting it up and that in the not-too-distant future, there is some movement in our federal government to bring it to an end. Only time will tell…

Time… It consumes our lives…literally. From the moment we are born, the clock begins ticking. Our days are numbered and none of us, for the most part, knows when our time will be up.

We are obsessed with time. We wish difficult times would pass quickly. We wish enjoyable, fulfilling times would never end.

But all of our wishes are to no avail. As they say, “Time waits for no man.”

The Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, talks about time.

For everything there is a season,
….a time for every activity under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.
….A time to plant and a time to harvest.
A time to kill and a time to heal.
….A time to tear down and a time to build up.
A time to cry and a time to laugh.
….A time to grieve and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
….A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
A time to search and a time to quit searching.
….A time to keep and a time to throw away.
A time to tear and a time to mend.
….A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
A time to love and a time to hate.
….A time for war and a time for peace. 3:1-8

It’s hard to comprehend but at one time, there was no time, and I’m a firm believer that there will come a time when time, as we know it, will be no more.

MoreThanUseless’s key verse is Ephesians 1:4,

Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. NLT

Before the world, there was no time. God has existed for eternity past…and He will never cease to exist. He is eternal. He is calling us, one and all, to life eternal.

In this world, we are bound by time. We run out of time. Our time is cut short. But in eternity, there will not be an absence of time, but rather endless time.

Lord Jesus, we may be bound by time here in this life, on this planet of Your creation but help us to use the time we have wisely. It is a priceless commodity, and we waste so much of it. May we invest in Your Kingdom. May we accomplish this by investing in others. Enable us to make the most of our time as we aim for the eternity that is before us and we are determined to bring along as many as we possibly can to join You in that endless time together. Amen.

Nov 7th, 2022, Mon, 6:24 pm