There at 2 times of the year that the whole country thinks about time at the same time and today is one of those times. This time issue is kind of a no-win situation. If you forgot to turn your clocks back then you were too early if you had someplace to go (like church). If you did turn your clock back then your sleep and your schedule got kind of messed up. Suffice it to say that time has the ability to kind of confuse us.
We have all had the experience (and continue to have it in escalating measure) of time passing at ever increasing rates. The older we get the quicker that time passes–that may have happened today if you have a calendar that you turn the page on each month. At home as we turned the calendar we realized that last January was a fresh memory. About 4 years ago as our family was sitting around the dinner table (yes, we still do that) and my oldest daughter (15 at the time) asked me how old I was. When I told her I was 45 she said, “Daddy, you’re old.” At which point I responded, “don’t blink.” It is amazing that I could recall 30 years ago like it was yesterday.
C.S. Lewis indicated that for us to say “my how time flies” is as ridiculous as a fish saying “my how wet water is” unless the fish was one day meant to walk on dry ground. You see, we were not created for time–we were created for eternity–therefore time feels so foreign to us. Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 3: 11, “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Could it be that our discomfort with time is really our longing for heaven?
There at 2 times of the year that the whole country thinks about time at the same time and today is one of those times. This time issue is kind of a no-win situation. If you forgot to turn your clocks back then you were too early if you had someplace to go (like church). If you did turn your clock back then your sleep and your schedule got kind of messed up. Suffice it to say that time has the ability to kind of confuse us.
We have all had the experience (and continue to have it in escalating measure) of time passing at ever increasing rates. The older we get the quicker that time passes–that may have happened today if you have a calendar that you turn the page on each month. At home as we turned the calendar we realized that last January was a fresh memory. About 4 years ago as our family was sitting around the dinner table (yes, we still do that) and my oldest daughter (15 at the time) asked me how old I was. When I told her I was 45 she said, “Daddy, you’re old.” At which point I responded, “don’t blink.” It is amazing that I could recall 30 years ago like it was yesterday.
C.S. Lewis indicated that for us to say “my how time flies” is as ridiculous as a fish saying “my how wet water is” unless the fish was one day meant to walk on dry ground. You see, we were not created for time–we were created for eternity–therefore time feels so foreign to us. Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 3: 11, “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Could it be that our discomfort with time is really our longing for heaven?
Pastor Jeff
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