TIME

Time- a thing that is measured as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years etc. Also defined as the measured or measurable period during which an action, process or condition exists or continues. 

Enough of dictionary explanations of what time is. Time dictates how we live each and every day of our lives; wake up every morning and have to leave the house in good time to beat traffic, could not have breakfast because you would get late, office hours are 8am to 5 pm with one hour lunch break, traffic heading back home, some time to spend with the wife and kids in the evening, dinner time and its off to bed; typical day. 

Somewhere between there you squeeze in some time to have a social life, hang out with friends, attend your weekly Bible Study, see a sick friend/relative in the hospital... you name it. 

Our life revolves on the limit of 24 hours in a day and that is a universal factor... no one has 23 and another 25, we all live 24 hours in a day. 

They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. Truth is, you can avoid to pay taxes, my taxation lecturer in college taught me that there is tax avoidance which is completely legal, tax avoidance on the other hand... you will end up in big trouble. 

Hence the only thing we can be certain of, the only thing that is inevitable in our lives... DEATH. Our lives will come to an end that is for sure. Death you are not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. Big question is; what quality of life will you have lived to be assured of eternity.

... "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last. I am the living one: I was dead, and now look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades." Revelations 1:17-18

I have been studying the book of Revelation, something that I have to admit I have never done in my life, and this verse caught my eye. Being written to 7 churches that were being persecuted for their faith, it meant that God was just telling them that through all they were going through, God was never going to change. 

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” Revelation 1:8

Unlike us God is not limited by time and space. His being remains the same way before I was born, throughout my entire life, and way after my passing from this life. 

This reassurance is that when I am with this God who never changes, then I know that Death is certain, but beyond there is eternity in the God I am in. 

So today I choose to anchor my life in eternity, beyond timelines that come with my life, and focus on what comes after my death... eternity with my Lord and Saviour, with my Father in Heaven. Same choice we all have today, I do hope yours is also focused on Eternity with God. 

It is up to you, you know...