A Year in Review

2018 is almost upon us.  The older I get the more that this sounds like a threat.  Time passing is something that we wish for when we are younger and dread when we are older.  As our kids grow we wish we could slow things down and hold on to precious hours.  Time is an important commodity. 

Perhaps you have never really given it thought, but time is the very first commodity that God gave to His creation.  We have the creation of light and dark and the beginning and end of day 1.  And so began creation.  And so continued creation on a series of light and dark creating days and hours.  And as the hours passed sin entered the picture, and with sin, death.  And death has a tendency to remind us that the days and hours that we are given because of the penalty of sin is much shorter than was intended.  Which is why we long for time. 

May I encourage you as we approach 2018 to view your life and your time and all of your other resources as a small part of the larger story of what God is doing?   When you focus here it does not make time go slower, but it does redeem the time and make it for the purpose for which God gave it to you.  Your time is not really yours, it belongs to the God who created time itself.  And as such you are indentured to use your time to His honor and glory.  Think of time as a loan.  God has given it to you for a short time so that you can invest it for His purposes.  And when we think of time in the way that God intended we will rest in the fact that the time we have is purposeful and meaningful. 

Soli Deo Gloria.