Time Flies

Time. Time has been talked about a lot these past days, at least through Face Book. In case you missed it, Harold Camping predicted that May 21st would be judgement day. We see that did not happen as Matthew 24:36 says, "No one knows the day or the hour..." However, it does make you think about how we spend our time.

I listened to a "timely" sermon today on time. When we are young and look at what the world has to offer, we think of ourselves and see the world as our oyster. Then as we get older we realize that isn't quite so and that there are a lot of trials and sorrow. Just like Moses said in Psalms 90:10, "The length of our days is seventy years -- or eighty, if we have the strenght; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away." As Pastor Brett said in his sermon entitled "Numbering," none of us are immune to trouble and sorrow. We have to be tethered to something much more glorious. How horrible would it be to go through all of this trial and sorrow with no purpose. We do have purpose though, to bring glory to our Father in Heaven. If we didn't have him, what would it all mean. No success or amount of money would ever make our time on earth endurable if it weren't for our Father.

What an illustration Pastor Brett used in the word tethered. It takes me back to my middle school days of playing tether ball. The yellow ball tethered to a white rope hooked to a metal pole. You would hit it one way and it would wind around the poll just to be hit again to unwind and wind again the other direction. Isn't life a lot like that? Getting wound and unwound again and again around a hard, metal pole. At least we have God to be tethered to and to see the big picture of life.

Our life is fleeting. Moses says in Psalms 90:4, "For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night." A thousand years is in reality just like 24 hours or maybe even more like a watch in the night -- 3 or 4 hours. Pastor Brett went to www.deathclock.com to see when it predicted he would die. It gave him 91 years on this earth. He said that according to what Moses says of how long time really is that 91 years would be like 15 minutes. For fun I went to www.deathclock.com too and I am predicted to die in April of 2078. It gives me 98 years on earth. Yet, it is so fleeting. Even though my life is fleeting and just like a brick in a huge structure -- insignificant in its own rite -- I am tethered to what is much more glorious and to a bigger picture.

My thoughts at this moment on this subject and on Pastor Brett's sermon just slightly touches on the many things that stood out in my mind and what he focused on in his message. If you ever are in need of a message to listen to (you do have the option to stream and watch his messages or download and listen to them), I encourage you to go to Island ECC's website and check out his messages. They always bless me and Father always speaks to me through them. His sermon notes are downloadable as well. Click on the pencil icon in order to download them. You can find the message I have referred to here.

I only have 2, 110, 457, 023 seconds left to live! I must go to bed and get rested up to live tomorrow!!