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The Deceptive
Nature of Time I
remember talking to my brother one time and he mentioned “the deceptive nature
of time.” I have thought about
that term a lot over the last few years. Job said, "My days are swifter
than a weaver's shuttle” (Job 7.6). There
are various passages that speak of the brevity of life.
James compares it to a vapor that appears for a little while and then
vanishes away, James 4.14. While
we, I, realize time is brief and passes quickly, there is something about it
that is deceptive. A number of years
ago I had to buy a new battery for the “old blue van.”
At the time I purchased a battery with a five year warranty.
My logic was that within five years that van will either be traded in or
in the junk yard before 5 years would be up.
That was the battery before the last battery, as the van has continued to
be a part of our lives. How was I to
know that the van would take on a life of its own?
It is like the energizer bunny that just keeps on going and going and
going. There
are some things we think will last forever, but they will not and there are
other things we think will not last, but they do.
The days of our childhood seem like they would just keep on going, but
they were very brief. The days of
suffering are short compared to eternity. On
the other hand, our influence will continue many years after we are gone.
Ironically
it is the infinite God that is the proper judge of time.
To God one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day,
2 Peter 3.8. Time is to be used
wisely. We need to think in the
short and long term. We need to
prepare for eternity while taking care of today.
Our
sign out front reads: A day without God is a sad.
A year without God is a shame. And, a life without God is loss. –Let
us not be sad, or ashamed, or loss. --
Dennis Tucker |