As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. - Genesis 8:22 (NIV)
Before clocks and the invention of sundials, the world existed just as it does today. Time has marched forward according to the cadence set forth by our Mighty Creator. The seasons cycle across the face of the planet and the harvest always follows the seeding.
Isn't it interesting that we contort our lives to fit into small squares on a calendar? Equally curious is how we wrap our existence around the slow, steady second hand that moves only in circles around our manufactured clocks. A pattern we often emulate with our lives.
God is timeless and without measure. How peculiar we have become - measuring our lives not by seasons, but by hours, minutes, and even seconds. How easy it has become to shove God into one small square on the man-made time grid?
A single day, Sunday, now under pressure by many Christians to be crammed into a single hour. We can do better, can't we?
It's ironic that the maker of time is one prayer away from us as we struggle to "make time" to honor Him with our time.
Don't be fooled into thinking "we make time". God makes the time! We just live in it - and decide how we'll spend it. Focus on thanking God for the time you do have.
THE RIGHT NEXT STEP:
- How often do you gauge your accomplishments based on time? How much time do you spend communing with God?
PRAY: Creator, God, Father - You have designed a perfect world. Remind me that You called this place, "good". Help me to remember that You are in control, not me. Open my eyes to opportunities to spend time with You. Amen.