Friday finally made it!

I don’t know how it happens, but Friday took a long time to get here this week. I know time is time is time and it goes no faster or slower any given day. Occasionally we add time to the clock. June 30, 2015 we added a leap second to the official atomic clocks to take into account the ever slower of the earth rotation. See it took longer for Friday to get here this week, exactly one second. I noticed. How about you?

When you are waiting on something time moves ever so slowly. Waiting for: test results from the doctor; as a child your birthday; the call about the job; time to get off work; the promotion just to name a few. I have worked retail and when business is slow time drags. You do one thing and then recognize 5 minutes have passed. FIVE minutes, ugh what is taking so long?

However when you are busy time flies by. It is never more evident than in children. As their departure for college or the work world or marriage looms, a parent often wonders where the time went and how did it go by so quickly. It can’t be possible that they are grown and that old. You were busy about life and living and time passed before you knew it. It can also go too fast when we are trying to avoid and outcome or event as we dig our feet into the earth trying to slop the motion.

It really is a perception and not a mathematical or time keeping issue. What we know is the here and now and like it or not our system of time keeping is determined by our environment. A day is 24 hours because it take 24 hours for the earth to complete one rotation. If it is slowing one day might be 25 hours long in the distant future. A year is 365 1/3 days as that is the amount of earth rotations it takes for our planet to rotate around the sun. Distance in the cosmos is measured in light years which is a unit of measure based on how far light travels in one calendar year (5.6 trillion miles). Our life is centered on time.

Dallas Willard in his book Divine Conspiracy speaking of time and God wrote, “Time runs its course within eternity.” Eternity is bigger than time. God is bigger than eternity. His name I AM that I AM. Present, always, is forever, larger, longer than eternity, THAT God. When we’ve been there 10, 000 years…kind of God. God is beyond time. That’s why both statements are true,

8 Dear friends, don’t let this one thing escape you: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 2 Peter 3:8 HCSB.

Time is our focus not God’s. God is looking to eternity. He is shaping us for eternity not the time here on this planet all be it 70-80-90+ years. That seems like a long time to us time-bound-burdened-battered people. It is but a portion of a drop. Be glad it’s Friday but be more glad that one day in the Kingdom there will be no more days!

Bro G