Don't Blink
Thursday, December 15, 2022
“Like sands from an hourglass, time passes; life is wasted by driblets, and seasons of grace lost by little slumbers. Oh, to be wise, to catch the fleeting hour, to use the passing moments!” – C.H. Spurgeon
I can close my eyes and be transported back to 1995. Deanna and I have been married for just 10 years instead of our current 37, and Bethany is only eight years old. Matt is six and Chris is four. Then I blink… and all of a sudden, our three growing children are teenagers. One more blink and they are off to college, graduating, embarking on their respective careers, and married.
Time flies… and the older you get, the faster is travels. Now, Deanna and I are experiencing – in the words of Yogi Berra – “déjà vu, all over again.” This time, it is our precious grandkids who are growing up too quickly.
Towards the end of his life, Billy Graham was asked about his greatest surprise. Specifically, his interviewer wanted to know what it was about life that he found so surprising. “It’s brevity,” said the great evangelist, who was in his 90s at the time.
As the saying goes, “Time and tide wait for no man.” Make the most of yours.
Only one life, ‘twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
- C.T. Studd
“For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.” James 4:14 (NKJV)
“See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:15-16 (NKJV)
- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President
