“…so do not ignore this: with the Lord, one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day…” 2 Peter 3:8 CJB
But not so with us Father.
You’ve placed us within a framework that has an allotted, limited boundary for all that exists within it.
Time seems to go so slowly when we are young. Everything seems to take so long.
We are always looking to be somewhere else than where we are, eyes on the future as we pass through the present, so focused on the future that we miss the import of the present.
But then, one day, if one has been blessed with years, we become aware that much time has passed and less remains. Maybe a picture, a letter, a passing word in conversation, and a whole vista of time and circumstances past are awakened, with striking clarity and emotional impact. In hindsight what seemed to pass so slowly or what passed without our notice… we realized was years… a lifetime. And now here towards the end time has speeded up. Why Father? Because we realize there is not time to do the things that take a long time?
Kind of like a large tank of water draining from a small opening at the bottom seems to take forever to go down but then towards the bottom appears to pick up speed the closer it gets to being empty, so life seems to go, Father. But in reality, it has been draining away that fast all along. We just weren’t perceiving it… maybe not paying attention.
Father, the prayer is, You would…
“Make ‘us’ grasp, ‘Father’, what ‘our’ end must be,
What it means that ‘our’ days are numbered; let ‘us’ know what ‘transient creatures we are.’”
And that we would wake to this new day You have given us and heed that Word
and all Your Words in order to make the most of our moments here, and accomplish the most good…according to Your perspective… find favor in Your eyes… and hopefully in the eyes of others…
May we focus on today… and if tomorrow is granted… the same then...
Holy Spirit, make us aware, guide us… moment by moment… day by day…
that our moments would not be insignificant to us, but valuable… the building blocks of days into years, into lifetimes…
So that looking back from time to time or at our end of times we will see a continuity present throughout our collection of imperfections… of hearts always to do what is right and good…of trust and obedience…
To see a way of having lived that demonstrated love for You, doing no harm…
and that You worked it all to good.
In Yeshua’s name we pray…
Amen.
Psalm 39;5(4) CJB (emphasis mine)
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