Our pastor recently gave us small hourglasses. Some were of 1 minute, 3-mins, 5-mins, etc. We all know that an hourglass will measure segments of time, or time in increments. Set one up, and time seems to slip away rapidly.
Mentally, set yourself up on a desert. There’s nothing but tons of sand. Dunes are dispersed throughout. Reach the top of a dune and look back. It’s possible your tracks will quickly vanish and get covered up in a short amount of time. Wind moves sand and erases what you recently created, whether you planned it or not. Like grains of sand slipping through our fingers, life passes by.
The grains of sands that comprise our lives are ever-moving and ever-shifting. Time, is running out on us. We began with a full glass, but now grains of sand are rapidly diminishing. As Jaci Velazquez sang in the Thief of Always
“You’ve got to live every moment/As though it was your last/ Before the thief of always/Steals tomorrow from your grasp/ Before the chance to know His love/Has somehow passed you by/Let your heart reach out/Right here, right now/For the Lord to touch your life.”
Time waits for no one, whether your hourglass holds seven-decades, three decades, two mins. or 60 secs of sand. Only God is unaffected by time because He exists outside of His creation and its effects on life.
Your life can hold more meaning if it’s hid behind His. When your time to leave this earth comes, you’ll transitions flawlessly into His presence- alive. As that oldie Fly Like an Eagle (Steve Miller Band) said, “Time keeps on slippin’, slippin,’ slippin’ into the future.” Use it wisely. God’s our timekeeper.
“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12).
God Bless,
Sam