How do we view time ...and how do we use, or misuse it??

With fondness, we can say, "I remember the time ..."

We can greet a friend, and say, "Let's set up a time when we can get together."

Or we can be appreciative when we say, "I'm looking forward to the time change.  I will really help out with getting the kids to school without it being so dark."

And we all would like to think of moments, and look forward to moments that we consider 'timeless'.

Why is it that ever looming seems to be that 'but' word ...??

But, time is something that makes us more often anxious than eager.  I think we'd be more eager for the timeless moments.

Time holds that aspect that is often not welcomed ...consequences.

It doesn't have to be so severe as 'doing time' ...as in jail or prison.

For a child, it may be severe enough to have a 'timeout'.  Yet, what seems to be the first and foremost on the child's mind?  A couple common responses come to mind:

• "How long do I have to sit?"
• "When can I get up?"

I guess I was trained in a way whereby getting the 'belt' as it was, I didn't have to consider the how long, unless I wondered how long afterwards it would hurt ...and I never did ask that question.  I didn't have to sit a timeout, as that was probably considered non-productive.  I made more sense to have to do some work.

And even today, I go to the dentist to get cavities filled without them numbing my mouth ...opting for the pain, instead of having to consider how long my mouth would be inactive.  

And just to clarify, I never hollered about a whipping, nor did I protest afterwards ...so, in that way my mouth was inactive.  I just preferred the option to speak when I felt it wise to.

                                          
But ....there's that word again, the consequences aspect of time came about when the timeless aspect of it ceased, for a time.  

We will return to the timeless aspect of it, but when the third of the angels rebelled against God, God put a stop to it and created time.

There will be a specified time when Satan will be allowed to attempt to mess up our minds ...then there will be the stated "End Times" inclusive of 3 1/2 years of false peace, and equal time of tribulation ...followed by a thousand year reign of Jesus ruling on earth.
 
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Every morning we have a reminder of how we should approach the new day.

When our sun comes up and brings light to a new day, birds singing to give perspective to our own enthusiasm and how we approach the day's events, we can be thankful and hopeful ...or we can look to the glare of the day's events.

If we don't get to work on time ...there may be consequences, and sometimes it is more than just not getting paid for time we were not there.  If we don't allow time for the unpredictability of rush hour traffic ...we may find ourselves bumper to bumper within the consequences of that.  If we take the bus, and we are not there on time ...we may have to wait some time for another bus. 

But, ...and some 'but's can be good, we can also look to the time Jesus went to die on the cross for us.  And we can look to the time we accepted that truth, and accepted Him into the heart of our mind.

So, when the sun comes up every morning to begin the day, we can begin by looking to the Son.  And if we begin that way, time will not be so much a burden to us.

Yet, procrastination is not such a great way to deal with it either.  Ignoring things does not readily lighten the burden. Since most of us don't understand time from the truly desperate aspect of it, we often don't see how time can also be used against us ...by having us believe time does not matter.

God created time.  Only God knows the time that really matters.  And wasting that time into complacency and inaction is as an effective tool for the enemy to actively keep us busy ...with the wrong things.

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