Slowing down time

Slowing down time

Bible:Psalm 90:4-15

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom (V.12).

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A lot has changed since the electric clock was invented in the 1840s. We now keep time on smart watches, smart phones and just about everything else. The pace of our lives seems to be set by speed and time. “We’re just moving faster and faster and getting back to people as quickly as we can,” one researcher said. “That’s driving us to think everything has to happen now.” Moses, the writer of one of the oldest psalms in the Bible, had a few things to say about time. He reminds us that God controls life’s pace. “A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night,” he wrote (PSALM 90:4). So the secret to managing our time well isn’t about going faster or slower. It’s about trusting the stuff we have to do to God, and firstly spending more time with Him. That will allow us to trust our days and the things we’re doing to
Him. Then we can get in step with each other as we look out for others before ourselves. But it starts with getting in step with Him—the One who made us (139:13) and knows our purpose and plans (V.16). Even if we get to live on earth for a long, long time—it won’t last forever. So
it is important that we use our time, even now. Not by watching the clock or trying to fit in as much as we can, but by giving each day to God. As Moses said, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (90:12). Then, with God we’ll always be on time, now and forever.

NO TIME IS EVER WASTED
WHEN WE’RE WAITING ON GOD.

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