Remember when you were a kid and Christmas seemed to take ten years to arrive and a school term lasted nine years instead of months and it seemed you had to sit in church all day on Sunday? That was a long time ago. Time has accelerated at an alarming pace. Friday seems to come the day after Monday and Monday comes the same day as Friday. Christmas occurs every quarter instead of every year. When you count the candles on your birthday cake, which seems to happen about once a month, you sit back to avoid the heat from all that fire andwonder where the years went.
Remember when you had the energy to chase the kids seven days a week? Now you are calling for the kids to pick up the grandkids after an hour. Surprised when you look in the mirror and an old person is staring back at you? Find yourself saying the things your parents used to say, or worse, your grandparents? Remember when you used to party hearty and now you hardly party, just not worth the effort?
I know it’s hard to believe but these phenomena are gifts from God. When we are young it seems we have forever to get right with God. When we get older we realize that we might have until the end of the day. When we are young we think we can do it all on our own. When we are older we know better. At least we should. When we are young we find it hard to believe that beauty is only skin deep, later we hope that’s true.
God has a message for us. What we can see is temporary. This is not our home. We are souls with a body and not bodies that we hope have a soul. Treasures need to be laid up for eternity. It seems we need help getting these messages as we get older. So God has to work a little harder and speak a little louder. Thanks God. I hear you.
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