What Time is It?
I received a smart watch for Christmas. Why do they call it a smart watch? It is truly amazing and smart. It will do everything. It measures my heart rate, counts my steps, tells me the weather, tells me when my phone is ringing, tells me when I get a message, alerts me to appointments, it has GPS and can trace my steps and dozens of other tasks I do not know about. Oh, and it tells me the time. I wonder now if it is worth the money someone paid for it. The most important task it does, tells me the time, any cheap “dumb” watch can do. Do you know what time it is? On this first day of a new year, I have to quote the lyric from the classic band ‘Chicago’…
As I was walking down the street one day
A man came up to me and asked me
What the time was that was on my watch, yeah
And I said,
Does anybody really know what time it is?
To find out what time it is, today is a good day to read Psalm 90 because it teaches us about time, the value and truth about time.
Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world,
Psalm 90:2,4
from everlasting to everlasting, you are God
A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by or like a watch in the night.
God is eternal, no beginning and no ending. He is not bound by time.
You sweep people away in the sleep of death – they are like new grass of the morning: In the morning it springs up new and by evening it is dry and withered.
Psalm 90:5-6
We are mortal. Our time is limited and we do not get more of it which makes it valuable. We will run out of time.
Teach us to number our days so we can gain a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12
How does numbering our days give us wisdom? By teaching us the scarcity, the value, and swiftness of time. When we understand the value and scarcity of time, we should use it more wisely. We should use time for the true priorities of life. I am not going to waste your time expounding more on the value of time. You know this truth already. I do want to remind you how to use your time wisely. I will share with you some quotes that have helped remind me how to spend what time I have left in a wise way.
Things that are important we schedule. If you don’t schedule important things,
Andy Stanley from sermon series, “Time of Your Life”
something unimportant will take its place.
When we realize our time is limited, we limit what we do with our time.
We are doing so much we don’t enjoy much of what we do.
Your life is your time. So, get control of your time and you have control of your life.
But, just for a moment now we’re all together. Mama, just for a moment we’re happy. Let’s really look at one another!
Quote from Thornton Wilder’s play, “Our Town.”
Don’t miss the best time in your life. If you do not know what time it is, time will get away from you. And you will not know where it went. The worse thing in the world is not money getting away from you it is time getting away from you. Where did it go? What are you going to do with the time you have left?
T.D. Jakes, click to link
“And tomorrow we might not be together . . .
Lyrics from “Anticipation” by Carly Simon
And stay right here ’cause these are the good old days.”
And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
Luke 12:19-20
“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
11 “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’ 12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ 13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
Matthew 25:11-13
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:11-13
10 Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”
Ecclesiastes 7:10
For it is not wise to ask such questions.
14 When times are good, be happy;
Ecclesiastes 7:14
but when times are bad, consider this:
God has made the one
as well as the other.
Therefore, no one can discover
anything about their future.
There is a time for everything,
Ecclesiastes 3:1
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4:13-15
Milan Dekich
