The Clock Only Goes In One Direction 7/8/2018

Good Morning,

As I sit here getting ready to write I have our Springer Spaniel on top of my feet and he is chewing on a bone. He is pretty busy with that bone right now and even going outside to chase birds around the yard is not pulling him away from that bone. I just poured a cup of Door County Irish Crème Coffee and finished praying. Time for me to get busy here myself.

I just mentioned time and it is what's on my mind this morning. Last night an old friend of ours came to bless us with music for our Saturday Evening Church Service. He is a musician, singer and composer. One of the things that came from his music last night stuck in my head. The clock only goes in one direction. Basically saying it this way, you can't turn back time. Although men have played with the idea of daylight savings time and in the fall and you turn back the clocks and gain and hour. You just lose that same hour in the spring. So the thought that you actually gained an hour is true folly.

He also said that there are two things we all have. We have some money and the ability to earn some more if needed. And we all have time allotted to us by God. Only He knows how much of it we have. Time cannot be replaced.  I know for sure that I have already used up most of mine. I am 61 years old and to say that I am at the half way mark would be pure nonsense. But than a 30 year old person might be half way there or only a third of the way there, only God knows for sure.

I leave you all with this thought. We should never waste time. When we have the opportunity to do a good thing for others and ourselves we should do them. It seems like just yesterday that I was a teenager in high school and actually had some hair. But those years are gone as well as the hair. Time slows down for no one.

So here are two passages to consider for today. Read them and embrace them or read them and weep if you are a time waster. If there is something you need to do, get it done.

 

Job 14:5-7 New Life Version (NLV)

⁵ A man’s days are numbered. You know the number of his months. He cannot live longer than the time You have set. ⁶ So now look away from him that he may rest, until he has lived the time set for him like a man paid to work.
⁷ “For there is hope for a tree, when it is cut down, that it will grow again, and that its branches will not stop growing.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 King James Version (KJV)

3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

² A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
³ A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
⁴ A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
⁵ A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
⁶ A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
⁷ A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
⁸ A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Food for thought!

Marty