What Time Is It?

I don’t know about you, but I am still adjusting to the recent time change.    In the Spring, we move our clocks ahead one hour for Daylight Savings Time.   In the Fall, we move our clocks back one hour to standard time.      Though we call that time period from Spring to Fall “Daylight Savings time”,  it really does not save time but simply tinkers with the clock so that it is daylight later in the day.    A time change certainly does not  increase the hours of daylight that the plants or crops  receive or that we have to do the things we need to do or want to do. 

As my wife will tell you, I am a person of routine and habit when it comes to my sleep and many other activities.   Therefore, it takes me a while to get used to a time change whether we are moving our clocks ahead one hour or back one hour.     When you think about it, moving the clocks back an hour in the Fall means that day is technically the longest day of the year. 

One of the things I like about a time change is that it forces me to deal with time.    I have to admit that most of the time I take time for granted.  Time is something we can spend, but it is not something we can buy or even sell.    How we spend our time is up to each one of us.      Time is simply a gift given to us by God.   While we might tinker with time through our time zones and our time changes,   God is the one who ultimately created time.   I am reminded of these words from Psalm 90 where we read:

Lord, you have been our dwelling place
    throughout all generations.
² Before the mountains were born
    or you brought forth the whole world,
    from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

³ You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”
⁴ A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.
⁵ Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:
⁶ In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.

 

Whatever time is it, enjoy the time and relish the gift of each and every minute and day.  Have a joy-filled week.-  Pastor Randy Wall

Prayer:   Lord and God, thank you for the gift of time.    Forgive me for the times that I waste it.  Help me to live each day and moment with the precious gift that it is;  through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.