One thing all of us wish we had more of is “time”, and we are running out of it. The clock strikes midnight, seasons come and go, and years quickly fade from our memories. It turns young men into old men and teaches us that beauty is vain and how it soon fades. Heroes of today are forgotten tomorrow, fortunes are made and soon squandered, and nations rise and fall all with the stroke of time. Time is unstoppable, it shows no bias, and all will soon become victims and buried on the pages of history. The patriarch Job writes, “For thou numberest my steps.” (Job 14:16).
   God teaches us from our text above we are to redeem the time, in other words, we are make the best of the time God has given us. It is my fear that years of my life will swiftly fade away and still I will be in the same place spiritually as I am today. We are to grow as Christians. Time is too precious to waste it on crude living and selfish motives. Time is not ours to waste. God holds the stop watch in his hand, “In the beginning God” (Genesis 1:1) and at the end “there should be time no longer” (Revelation 10:6). How often we have started to late in the day to get things done and the suns begins to set before the job is completed. Jesus said, “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” (John 9:4). We have wasted to much of God’s time. Soon time will be no more, the sun is quickly fading beneath the horizon and we have only a short time left here to labor. “Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.” (Luke 12:40).
   For the Christian we have just a few short hours left to labor and then the glories of Heaven. But for the lost, those who do not know Christ, the hour glass ends with judgment. Your days are surely numbered, Christ or sin. “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” (II Corinthians 6:2). Don’t put off tomorrow what needs to be done today, for tomorrow may never come.
                                                                                                                                                  Josh Greene
                                                                                                                                                       7-5-09