Time Marches On

I’m having a hard time believing that November is already here!  October seemed to fly by at our house, and now a new month is starting.  Fall has always been my favorite time of year, but it’s going by too fast this year.  In no time, it will be Christmas and a new year! 

It’s hard for me to imagine time from God’s perspective, where “A day is like a thousand years . . . and a thousand years is like a day” (Psalm 90:4).  God does not view time as humans do, and he is completely unrestricted by time.  In fact, our entire lifetime is just a moment to him. 

Sometimes God’s perspective on time can be frustrating to us, like when we’re praying about something and it seems like we have to wait forever for his answer.  But I’m thankful that God can be trusted beyond what we can see at any given moment and that we can depend on him because he is eternal.  We constantly feel like time is getting away from us, but God resides outside of time and can be trusted to act when he is ready and do what needs to be done – which might not necessarily be what we would like him to do. 

Since our hearts were created for eternity (Ecclesiastes 3:11), maybe we should try to remind our bodies and minds that we’re not supposed to be completely satisfied with life here on earth because we were created for something different.  This world is not my home!  So, no matter how fast time seems to be whizzing by, I can focus on eternal things and stop trying to fit God into my time constraints.  I can start applying God-principles to my life here on earth instead of trying to apply human principles to God. 

Today I can relate to what the apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 4:18: “. . . the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.”  October and November will soon be gone, but eternity will last forever.  God is much more interested in growing my character and preparing me for eternity than in making sure I get the most (from a human perspective) out of my time here on earth. 

There’s always enough time in each day and each season to focus on God and spend time preparing for eternity.  Just saying . . .