For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1
Recently, my husband and I were discussing how slowly time seems to go when you are young, compared with how quickly it seems to go when you get older. As a child, a day feels like an age and ten-sleeps until the birthday party or holiday or Christmas feels like forever. When two people start dating, the relationship is counted in weeks, and the wait in between seeing each other feels endless.
Time appears to change momentum, though, with each decade of our life, until one day you are having a conversation and you find yourself asking… “Was it two or three years ago that happened?” And the reply is, “It was actually six.” Time is such a strange commodity. We go from almost wishing it away with all the things we can’t wait for, to wishing it would stand still so that we could just breath for a moment because there aren’t enough hours in the day! We have a strange relationship with time and we often make the mistake of thinking that it belongs to us, and that we have control over it.
He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting. Psalm 104:19
Time is not ours to hold, for it belongs to God, and one day – just like Him – we will exist outside of it. In the meantime, we are instructed to look carefully at how we live. We are to strive for wisdom, to understand God’s will for our lives, for in doing so we can then make the best use of our time. Every minute that we have be given is precious, so let’s not waste them on things that are not worthy of that preciousness.
The best thing we can do with our time is hand it over to God and let Him guide us in using it for His glory and our good.
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