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Getting Closer


Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.
Romans 13:11

  It was just seemly a few years ago when I took some of the youth group to the local fair when one of my young people saw a ride and made an excellent point. The ride was called Starship 2000. It was meant to look all futuristic but the ride itself was well aged. The young man exclaimed, ‘you know that ride is old because when they made it the year 2000 was far into the future’. We laughed because it was 1999.  

  Now here we are staring down at the upcoming year 2019. That story is over 20 years old. Yet in some ways, the year 2000 still kind of seems far off to me. It can’t be that we this far into a new millennium.  How has time passed by so fast?

  That is the funny thing about time. It is constant and runs the same no matter what yet for us it the speed seems ever-changing. Monday drag on so slow. Vacations end too quickly. Parents of a newborn think it has been forever since the slept. Those same parents can’t believe that that baby is now walking across the stage getting a diploma. The days pass slowly but the years fly by.

  We are now closer to the end than we have ever been. Don’t get caught thinking you have more time. It will disappear on you. Take the time you have now a use it the best you can. Do what needs to be done (James4:17). Make the most of your time (Ephesians 5:16). Make the most of the opportunity (Colossians 4:5). Do good (Galatians 6:10). Be saved (2 Corinthians 6:2).   You never know if you will get to in the future.


The future may seem far off but it may already be past you!
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