Redeem The Time

 Again and again I am reminded of the brevity of life, more noticeably now, in these later seasons of life. Why just yesterday, or so it seems, I stood in the delivery room with unbidden tears streaming down my face. A joy I had never known came welling up from a part of me that I did not know existed; God had given me a son! Now, after these few fleeting days, my son is a senior in college. I have lived long enough to experience what my father and grandfather tried to help me grasp in my youth, “As you get older, time seems to pass more quickly.”

 Perhaps God intended for all fathers to impress this truth upon their children, for even He, the Heavenly Father, has said it time and again. “For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again... (2Samuel 14:14a).” “...What is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (James 4:14b).”

Just last night, I heard a preacher remind a congregation of youth that in a few years, they would look back on these days and marvel at the passage of time. They didn’t get it... yet.

Time has made a believer out of me; and now, I’m the father, trying to impress upon my children that, “Time waits for no one.” In this season of life, I’m confronted with an old question, “What ought we to be in light of the fact that “life is but a vapor?” I’m happy to report, I have found the answer! Here, I’ll share it with you; “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be?... Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,... be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. (2Peter 3:11-14).”

 Can I help you find this peace that God offers for time and eternity? I’ll be waiting for your call!