should you hurry up and read this?

What is time? Time, to me at least, seems to be some thing we have invented in our human minds to box in our lives: our happy moments, our struggles, our dreams...our death, etc. It's almost like we have this mindset that if we tell ourselves we only have to bear 4 more days of this struggle or it's only 5 more years of school til we get that dream job, or even perhaps that we expect to live 70 more years, it will make the struggles easier and the goals more accomplishable. But, in all reality is it true?--seem psychological to me--at least I can't remember the last time a watch made a powerpoint or got me a promotion anyway. We are constantly looking at the time and boxing life in..but should we be and does it help?

I, for one, am absolutely horrible at this. For visual purposes, if Time and I were married, it would be an emotionally abusive relationship. Time makes me stress, more so in the past than it does now. There was a point in my life that an unexpected change in plans, traffic problem, etc. of even 10 minutes would throw my schedule off kilter and cause me to worry worry worry--thinking I'll never get x,y,z task done now. Notice that though--it was always I'll never get this done, not we'll never get this done--yep, lack of faith in Who really gets things done (Philippians 4:13). And I tend to think that seems to be what time can be, or at least what it can become to us--a crutch, or something that can draw us away from our focus on God. I often find that I hesitate to apply the whole 'God is all-powerful' to my life and tough situations--though in the back of my mind I'm thinking it, my flesh is like 'woah, I am out of control, this ship is going down, this math doesn't work, this isn't logical.'...what I'm finding is that the greatest works of God are not logical. Love is not logical. Miracles are called miracles because they are exceptions to logic. But this really doesn't surprise me, it makes sense that the God who made our brains is greater than the brain itself...so what we can't fathom is like 'poof. done' to God. Time restrictions or not.

What's weird is that I find time is more inhibiting than well, hibiting (is that a word?). What I mean by that is so often it seems that time limits us rather than helps us--and essentially time is a mindset...think about it, have you ever held time? Ever influenced time? Yet, we try so hard to control it. Time boxes in God's abilities, those abilities which transcend time.

For instance, let's reflect on Joshua 10:12-14 where God made the sun stand still in the sky...that's right, time. stood. still. If God conquered time, which seems to be a cause for our hustle and bustle and shortness of life and so many woes, then surely we can trust Him with other things.

Matthew 6:34: "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."...timeless wisdom.

I also recommend reading Ecclesiates 3:1-8.