“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…” Ecclesiastes 3:1

It started raining last night! Which is a very good thing, since we haven’t seen a good rain in months! Oh, it’s nothing to be concerned about because, here in Florida, it’s just a part of a cyclical time table. We know that dry and rainy seasons come and go. We just don’t know exactly when. About a month ago I took the time to fix a leaky patch on my roof. The rain proved it didn’t work!

Time is an interesting, useful, inevitable, unstoppable wonder of God. It is NOT essential! Scripture says God is eternal, in both past and future. Since God doesn’t need time, it seems possible to me that He created it for humanity… for the purpose of defeating satan. One Day, time as we know it, will be no more! Until then we look forward to and look back on events, calling the in-between points – Life!

Last night Katie and I paid a visit to say goodbye to Larry and Patty, long time ‘snowbird’ members of our church. Every year they come down in the fall, and go back in the spring. We know this! When they come we say “YEAHHH!” When they leave we say “Awwww.” What we remember is the sharing of life in between those points. It is interesting how emotions rise and fall with the calendar. 

This morning Heather, another Church member, is in the hospital for an operation. Over Christmas she came close to dying from a ruptured colon. With that event in the past, the time was set, and has come, to reverse a procedure that saved her life. With the date set, each tick of the clock has been planned and every detail considered by doctors and family alike. Now, it’s an event to experience and move on from.

As we study the Book of Revelation, the one drawback I have discovered over the years is that people always try to predict events and plug the words of The Revelation into a date on the calendar! Which entirely misses the point! The Revelation was never meant to predict, but to let people know that Time is precious. What we DO with it, and how we use it, is being recorded!

Are you more interested in knowing the future than living with Christ in your present? Do you search the Scriptures for future events more than you do for instruction on how to live with Him in the present? If ‘The End’ were to come today, are you prepared to face Him?