There is a time for everything!
Today on my calendar is the birthday of my friend Lorraine who I have not seen in a “long” time. I imagine that if we got together, we would pick back up in the middle of a conversation like no time had passed and we would not stop talking until we fell asleep mid-sentence. I also went to a funeral today of one who left earth too soon but who also left it with a huge legacy. One of the things Dathan Brown valued was detail and organization. He loved his Daytimer and Franklin and knew how to use them. They were useful in his quest to make the most of every moment and to make much of Jesus.
Try to imagine a life without paying attention to schedules, calendars and a watch. It is very hard to do – one might even say it is impossible. Humans are the only ones who pay attention to such things. We measure our lives by days, events and milestones. But one day we will stop paying attention. There will be no more time to constrain us. We will never be late. We will not have watches to look at. I wonder if we will even use that word/concept, or if it will have a whole new meaning. It will always be “day” and we will never grow weary. Time won’t exist and so it will never run out; we will never get to the end of it. Perhaps it would be better to say that we will never run out of time. “Now” we wait for the day when we too will stop walking by faith and will start living by sight. Until then, we count the days and make them count. We are so driven my time that it is hard to even think about or talk about eternity, because we are so tied to beginnings and endings. But someday, hopefully soon, we will have no less days to sing God’s praise that when we first begun.
Revelation 10:6