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Fall Back
This weekend we fall back. Thank goodness for the “spring forward, fall back” phrase or I’d never get it right. Other than having to turn each one of our fifty clocks 23 hours ahead I actually don’t mind falling back. Truthfully, that’s probably what I’ll spend my extra hour doing. I’ll use it to adjust all the clocks in our house and cars….Oh my, the cars. We have three cars, all the same make, yet mysteriously none of the clocks can be adjusted the same way. I’m tempted to just let it go and do the math in my head. It will only be wrong for half the year. By spring, it will catch back up. What’s six months of doing simple math in my head to subtract one hour if I need to know the real time?
Other than the painful setting of the clocks, who wouldn’t love an extra hour added to their day? It is like a gift! Now, springing forward….that’s another story. Sometimes it takes me weeks to recover from the loss of that one small hour.
Isn’t our life a lot like “falling back?” We are given a certain amount of time. In fact, the bible says that our life is like a “vapor.” In the whole scheme of things, it is not so different than that hour we are given each fall. It doesn’t seem like very much, does it? It is just one hour, just sixty minutes. What will you do with your hour? Some people will use it for good? Some will be productive? Others will waste it? Or maybe even worse, others won’t even be aware they had an extra hour added to their day.
Those same questions can be asked about our life. God has given us a certain number of hours…like sands through the hour glass…so are the days of our lives. (only a handful of soap fans will even understand the previous statement…that one’s for you!) We have a “wisp of vapor” to do what God has purposed us to do. He placed us in this time, in this place, around these people. He gave us these children, these friends, these co-workers.
Will we use our time for His glory to accomplish His plans? Will we be productive with the gift we have so graciously been given or will we waste it? Or maybe even worse, will we even realize what we have been given before its too late?
Take a moment and thank Him for the gift. Don’t look back. Instead, set your sights on what’s in front of you. Then ask Him, no, beg Him, to show you how to use the hours you have left to make the most of every breath before that last grain of sand slips through the hour glass.
James 4:14(AMP) “Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air].”
Psalm 144:4 NASB “Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow.”
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By Jean Marlowe
October 30, 2009 10:38 PM | Link to this
Suzanne, Keep on writing, God has blessed you with a wonderful talent and thank you so much for sharing it with us. Love, Jean