He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. ECCLESIASTES 3:11-14 (NIV)
Key points:
- God is with us in every moment and every day.
- The limited time we have is a gift from God to use for his purposes.
- It’s up to us to stay alert to what God is doing.
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Time. Some days there is far too much time and other days there is not enough of it.
Days go by, the months and suddenly years have evaporated. Now I might have had the time of my life, but I am reminded that I am on the clock.
Pink Floyd sang, “No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.”
Pink Floyd sang the track Time (writers: Waters, Gilmour, Wright, Mason, 1973) from Dark Side of the Moon:
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
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Reading lyrics like this is confronting (they are meant to be).
Take Heart. God is with us always in all times and all situations. The teacher from Ecclesiastes reminds us that God has made everything beautiful in its time and for our time it is a gift from God.
Our lives are fulfilled because they are found in God.
We don’t want to miss that gift. Be alert to Him and what He wants us to be and do for Him. Our lives are fulfilled because they are found in God.
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Devotion written by David Barker
Originally published as Time – Our Time is a Gift
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