We don’t know when, we just know, at some moment it will happen.  I cannot tell you how precious my life’s moments have become for I know not their number.  What plans are a man’s when the next breath remains outside his control?  How can I prove my love to you without the time to show you?  Are all my thoughts constrained by warden Time?  Is working out my salvation with fear and trembling possible when I have no time to understand reverence for God?  All creation is on the clock, including the fallen, but for God there is no conclusion, no beginning, no measure and no pressure to perform.  Are you warming to the idea that things are not your own, for without the time to own them there is no authority.  Try breathing without breath, try farming without rain, try dreaming without thought, try planning without time to strategize or execute your action steps.  Control is an illusion, therefore the enemy can only hope to convince us the illusion has form.

My thoughts are sinful or pure, but they are nothing without the time to think them, the time to commit them or the time to ask that they be forgiven.  I am nothing without time, the time to walk through this life making choices that God gave me the time and grace to make.  I have no time, it is given to me, not owned.  What I do with the time I have been given either serves for nothing or for God, there is no twain.  For if there were no men in the forest what legacy would I achieve if none had the time to read my godless deeds?  God’s review of my life in the time He has given is the only testimony of my worth.  Just as any other created being outside of time I am nothing.  This is not true for God.  For outside of time He is still limitless, borderless, infinite.  Rejoicing in His gifts, enjoying our relationship and loving others with the love He gave me are my greatest achievements but I needed the time to experience them or they didn’t exist.  That is why life is precious for I have the time to experience the pain, the joy, the trials, the victories and the people.  Without the clock life’s precious moments have no value for we all face the determined and inevitable countdown to what faces each of us after this life.  So, time makes each of us believe in something for we either believe it ends abruptly or continues, but we all believe in something beyond the governing hands of time.

I pray that you have the time to contemplate that belief, for it is the purpose of this life.  Ironic that what happens after this life determines the quality and fulfillment in this one.  One thing I know is that I don’t know how much time I have been given.  Therefore I choose to live the rest of it for the Lord, assured, loved and determined to live forever with God.  Thank you Lord Jesus for the opportunity to join you in eternity.