Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us, “There is a time for everything, and a season for very activity under the heavens.” The end of the year is a time to list past things we have seen and things some think we might see in the future. Harvey Mackay, Minnesota businessman who produces a weekly inspirational advice column in 100 newspapers, wrote some thirty years ago, “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.”
Only the foolish person thinks time will never end for him or her. Yet time is a taskmaster, ever marching us onward until the day Almighty God brings us to Himself in judgment. The author of Ecclesiastes wrote his famous list 3,000 years ago: “A time to be born, and a time to die… etc.” But one thing he never lists is a time to waste. Wastefulness is one of the things that show our human sin in this fallen world.
Time is a gift, one we will eventually lose on earth, but then gain for eternity. Apostle Paul tells us, “In the fullness of time, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might we adopted as children of God.” (Galatians 4:4-5) We have just now observed the joy of recalling that event.
I have always tried to use my time in a useful or helpful way, and I am grateful God forgives us for the time we waste. Today time marches us every closer to the year 2020. May God give us His grace and mercy in the days before us, and may all who read this receiving the eternal blessing of being adopted as His children.
A blessed and Happy New Year of 2020!
Rev. Bob Tasler, www.bobtasler.com
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