As Time Goes By
 

by Tracey Schell

Having just celebrated my 31st birthday, I am aware of just how fast time passes by. My childhood doesn't seem that long ago in my mind, but a lot of years have passed since then. Nothing can stand against the ravages of time. As the song says, “Time is filled with swift transition,  naught of earth unmoved can stand.”

Entire civilizations have come and gone, buried beneath the sands of time. The Aztecs and the Incas, once great nations, are now nothing more than archeological footnotes. So just how insignificant does that make our lives?

``For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away'' (1 Peter 1:24).

Has anyone ever given you cut flowers? Their beauty is great, but temporary, and they quickly wither and die in just a few days. So also are the days of our lives. We all want to live a long life, but is there really any such thing? Adam, the first man, lived 930 years. Noah lived 950 years, and old man Methuselah topped them all at 969 years! Moses, by comparison, died young. He only lived a mere 120 years! Most of us will be fortunate if we live half that long.

We are just passing through this world on our way to Heaven or Hell. There are no other options as to where we will end up. The length of time we are here is irrelevant. What is important is how we live our lives. Will we spend our brief time here in service to God so that we can have a  home with him in Heaven, or will we squander our time and end up in eternal damnation?

If you are a Christian already, the task before you is to continue down the road you have wisely chosen and not stray from the path. If you are not a Christian, what are      you waiting for? Time is passing you by!

Do not think you have as long as Methuselah to make up your mind. You do not. In fact, you may not even have till tomorrow to make up your mind.

``Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that'' (James 4:14-15).

Do not be like Felix and attempt to wait for a more convenient season. That time may never come. As many a preacher has said, if you are subject to God's call, now is the time of convenience!

  

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