Time Is Not Retrievable

  

"Man is like a mere breath; his days are like a passing shadow" (Psa. 144:4)

 Hey Gang, I had a conversation with man who is in the twilight years of his life and will have nothing to do with God or His Son Jesus.  It is my sincere opinion that the reason is, he does not want to give up total control of his own life; the bangles and beads that are more important to him than eternal life with the King of kings and Lord of lords.  He also said, “Sunday was his day and he just did not want to give it up.” 

It is also my sincere opinion that in the back of his mind he is planning on a death bed conversion and slip into the Kingdom of God on the promise of Jesus to the thief on the cross.  But, is that not placing your soul in jeopardy for all eternity?

How much time we have is not known to us; life could end in the twinkling of an eye.  A head-on car crash and a period placed at the end of a life.  A terminal disease and the light goes out.

 The Psalmist wrote, "As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or is due to strength, eighty years"  (Psa. 90:10).  I pray daily for the children in the St Jude Cancer Treatment Center; mere babies who are fighting for their lives.  They are not into seventy or eighty years of life but tomorrow may be their last. 

 James wrote, "You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away" (James 4:14b).  Does that not smack at our macho egos?  Are we so into power and control that we think we can put off the eternal things until it best fits into our agenda?  "No, I don't want to give up my Sundays!"

 Again returning to the words of Psalmist we read, "As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.  When the wind has passed over it, it is no more, And its place acknowledges it no longer" (103:15-16)

 Soooo, I realize Gramps Morning Thoughts are addressed to an audience mostly firmly anchored in Jesus’ hands, BUT, perhaps, by accident, might be read by one who needs to know that the time that they think they have can be cut out from under them in the twinkling of an eye.   And then what?  

 John put it this way: "I must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day, night is coming when no one can work" (9:4)  And how can we end this without a word from Paul? "And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not" Gal. 6:9).

 Blessings,

Gramps