Days of Our Lives
Do you remember hearing this phrase in the distance past? Along with these words coming through the tiny speaker of your black and white TV?
I am referring to a TV show which famously begins with an hourglass (often called a sand clock) on screen while a narrator recites the iconic line: "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives."
Which brings me to a favorite saying of a favorite person, Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island: "One grain of time's inestimable sand is worth a golden mountain."
We all waste time and resources. And we all have regrets. Thus in the end, we must agree with Jesus that we are, in a sense, "unprofitable servants".
When you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, "We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do." Luke 17.
Over to you. What are the words which you live by? Are they Christ-centered words? Will others attest that your sincerity is real?
Let us all "redeem the time" and follow the Lamb, wherever He leads.
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It is very interesting to talk about time, brother. I am particularly drawn to the saying, “A priceless grain of sand of time is worth more than a mountain of gold.” Indeed, the time that God has given us is far more valuable than a mountain of gold. As someone once said, time is money, but money is not time. We cannot buy time with money, but with time, we can acquire money. And one thing we should always remember is that we can count how much money we have left, but we cannot count how much time God has left for us.
There are two Greek terms that are translated as “time”: chronos and kairos. Chronos refers to time in the chronological sense. Everyone makes use of the chronos that God has given them. However, kairos refers to the opportunities that God provides within the framework of chronos. Not everyone is able to recognize the kairos that God places before them. That is why Paul exhorts us to “redeem” the kairos (Colossians 4:5). If, by His grace, we are able to redeem or make the most of the kairos that God gives us, then we are truly making the best use of our time.
May we continually recognize every kairos that God grants us in our lives, so that we will not regret the chronos that has passed. May we always follow the Lamb wherever He goes, and in doing so, may we faithfully redeem every kairos He places before us.