The old song says, “Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future”.
Where does the time go?
We wish we had more time. We want to be unhurried. We look around and try to fit every thing we can into our daily schedules and then wonder why at the end of the day we are exhausted. We like to be busy. Down time seems to be such a waste in the never ending call of our responsibility.
We are so busy maximizing the minutes that we miss what God has for us in the seconds.
Children grow up and we wonder where the time went. They used to be in diapers and now they are in prom dresses.
Parents pass away and we wish we could call them….one more time.
We get older ourselves and a glance in the mirror will tell us exactly how much time has passed.
:Everything is measured in time.
The Bible speaks of time, also: Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “ For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.”
John 4:23 says, “ Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for
they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.”
Acts 1:7 says, “ He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.”
Time IS slippin’ into the future. It’s moving right along exactly the way God planned it. The thing is, we don’t know how God really measures time, but we do know that He says to “redeem the time”. We are instructed to be careful how we walk…not as unwise, but wise. In other words, we are to make the most of our time, because we live in evil days. We are to take advantage of every opportunity to show our sphere of influence Who God is. He doesn’t give us time to waste. He gives us time to extend to others the marvelous grace that was given to us at salvation. That, my friends, is where we are to spend our time.
Now…….I can waste time. Truth is, I can be the master of procrastination. And maybe that’s not a bad thing every once in a while. I believe God wants us to rest and get quiet enough to hear Him. It’s just that sometimes I can take it a bit further than it was intended.
People mark time passing by events in their lives. We wait 9+ months for a baby to be born. We wait to turn 16 so we can drive. We wait to graduate from high school. We wait to graduate from college or get married , We wait for those test results we don’t really want to hear. We wait to see if that child we love will really make the right decision….. or whatever other type of milestone you have. We wait for time to pass for something to happen. We wait in hopes that something good will happen. That God really does “work all things together for our good”.
Sometimes the waiting room of life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
But God is always Who He says He is. Count on it.
And this is what He says,
“ but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31
If we WAIT for Him, we will get our strength renewed. That means the strength is already there…we just want more. We have been tired from filling in every second of the day and night…..and we don’t have to be.
If we WAIT for Him, we are setting our hearts on minds on heavenly matters.
If we Wait for Him, no matter what life throws at us, we can trust that God is soaring right along side of us and guiding us all the way.
In Gills Exposition of the Bible, it says, “ The Jews have a notion, that for ten years the eagle ascends very high in the firmament of heaven, and approaching near to the heat of the sun, it falls into the sea, through the vehemence of the heat; and then it casts its feathers, and is renewed again, and its feathers grow, and it returns to the days of its youth.”
Fresh feathers. Renewing their strength.
That’s what we get when we WAIT on the Lord. Waiting is hard. Waiting tries our patience. Waiting is not comfortable. Waiting grinds our very last nerve. Yet, it is what God asks us to do. And there are spiritual benefits to waiting.
Time isn’t just slippin’ and passing away. Time is coming. All time is being marked to the exact moment when Jesus will return. And on that day, we will see all that we haven’t been able to make sense of, all of the times when we scratched our heads and asked why, all the moments in time we thought were important….and we will realize they were not.
Need some fresh feathers? Wait on the Lord.
Need time to slow down? Wait on the Lord.
Need to run this race of life and not be weary? Wait on the Lord.
Waiting Child of God——Be strong in the Lord.
