Well the day has arrived. It is officially January 3rd as I’m typing this and in 6 hours I will be leaving with my friend Carrie to drive down to Miami and about 30 hours from now I will be meeting up with my squad to fly out for the Dominican Republic.
In recent days I have discovered that time is a funny thing. As we celebrated the New Year I thought about how fast it seemed this year passed by even though I spent countless hours at work wishing the clock to move faster than the snails pace it seemed to be keeping. The past couple of weeks I was wishing it would slow down. It’s odd how one person’s day can “fly by” and anothers day can be “slower than molasses running uphill on a winter day” and each person had the same 24 hours. It’s concrete and abstract all at the same time.
My head spins a little more when I start thinking about the fact that God isn’t bound by time like we are. With Him a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day (2 Peter 3:8). He knows the past, present and future after all He is Alpha and Omega. I think that our struggle with the abstract part of time just shows that we are created to be eternal beings. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”
I have a hard time thinking about how all the things in life work together for good for those who love God (Romans 8:28). I struggle to wrap my mind around how God weaves all of time together to accomplish His will. And somehow, for me, it has led to this place.
So I step out not knowing what lies ahead, but with confident assurance that God does. That lightens one load… now if only I could lighten my backpack!
