Long before Einstein’s theory of relativity people were very aware that time is relative. When we are very small time moves ever so slowly. A week was a month and a month a year. In our autumn and winter years it reverses. A year is a month and a month a week. I realize we are fearfully and wonderfully made but I do wish God had reversed the effect.
We are prisoners of time. There are so many clocks that control our lives. We are governed by a psychological clock, a biological clock and a social clock. As we mature different parts of our brains come on line and our judgment matures. Our cells age according to a built in schedule. And society tells us when we are too old for a pacifier and too young to marry. Often we hear parents say, “You’re not old enough for that.” The average age of marriage now is twenty-eight. Fifty years ago it was twenty.
God’s gift to us is eternity. See John 3:16. We will be set free from time. There will be no psychological, biological or social clock to dictate our health or behavior. We will be free to grow at our own pace. We will be free to take as long as we desire to become masters of new arts and skills. The whole concept is so vast it really is beyond the ability of our finite minds to grasp the infinite gift we are given when we make Jesus our Lord. Just in case I don’t get to see you in this phase of life I’ll catch you somewhere a few thousand years from now. How grand!
Written by Roger Bothwell on September 8, 2009
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