“I’m sorry, I just don’t have time.” We’ve all heard it a million times, and half of them from our own lips. Someone recently remarked, “Someday I’m going to move to a place—where life is lived at a slower pace.” I thought to myself, Your chances of finding such a place are about as good as your making a fortune selling poetry.
The truth of the matter is, the amount of hours in a day has not changed since God said, “Let there be light.” “The evening and the morning” has always constituted a twenty four hour day.
Wise old King Solomon wrote, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted… (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2).
Our problem has nothing to do with time, really; it’s more of a priority issue. You and I have as much time each day as Adam and Eve, Abraham, George Washington and my beloved grandfather who taught me to complain about the brevity of a day.
Tell you what, I’ll stop complaining about time, if you will. It’s settled then; we have time to do what we want to do. And so, now the question has become, What do you want to do?
While we’re on the subject, perhaps we should consider what God would have us to do, since, according to the Bible, He has purchased us for Himself at the tremendous cost of the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. (John 3:16; 1Cor. 6:19-20) We should also be reminded that we are utterly dependent on Him for everything, including the next breath we breathe. Yes, I believe that what God wants us to do should be highest on our list of priorities.
For sure, God would have us establish a relationship with Him through Christ, get involved in a local church, pray, spend time in His Word…
O my, I’ll have to stop here,… have you seen the TIME?