Very soon our time is going to change,
A greater change than a human’s hourly shift;
No longer will we follow the standard time:
The minute’s sweep to eternity will be swift;
From hours and days the starkness may seem strange:
Darkened hell for those who refuse the gift,
And humble seekers lifted to light sublime.
After many years he awoke from slumber
And counted hours he’d wasted, without number.
He couldn’t undo the past, now he was old;
From knowledge of what he’d lost, his heart was cold.
He doubled efforts and tried to right his loss—
A frantic race—his heavy albatross.
Today is all I have, and you with me,
The time for selfless love, and chance to be
Deliberate people of God, in Christ content,
Indifferent to where the fleeting hours went. Continue reading
Just in the nick of time. At the right moment. God acts exactly when he should, when things ought to be done, no sooner, no later. In our limited vision, God is often late. Or we think that he jumps the gun. But God is always on time. Continue reading
Time is a recurrent theme of mine, as subscribers to Cloudburst are aware by now. But I don’t think I’ve used the concept of an exchange (term repeated twice) before. Continue reading
by J. Randal Matheny © 2012
Don’t waste your life with sour regret,
The future’s theirs who soon forget
The squandered chances, time ill spent,
Who know the joy to truly repent. Continue reading
How did the day go whizzing by?
It came and went so fast!
How glad, when Christ shows in the sky,
To have a day to last!
—JRM
by J. Randal Matheny © 2012 UPLift
Bad skiers on the slope were we,
Before the falling avalanche,
In panicked race to eternity,
Attacking time by clock and tranche. Continue reading
Yesterday was the shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere. It’s called solstice. The summer solstice will be the longest day. In the Antarctic polar circle, yesterday was the only day of the year in which there was no light, only a 24-hour period of darkness.
Whether the day is short or long, there is always time to do what we need to do.
We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.
John 9:4 NET
On the day Jesus said this, he cured a man blind from birth. He used the moment to teach several truths. Here, the Lord speaks figuratively.
“Day” indicates the span of our life, opportunity, the possibility of the moment. “Night” means death, the loss of possibility, the failure to act when the chance appears.
Nobody can turn back the clock. The lost opportunity can never be recalled. We must do God’s will while we still have life. That means today. The “day” of today. The “day” of now.
Thus will we give glory to God taking action today, doing his works while there is time.
