TIME,
PERSPECTIVE ON

HAVE you ever been to work and looked up at the clock to note the time … let’s say that it’s 9:00 a.m. Things are going slow. You may not have much to do or maybe it’s just one of those slow times on the job. You glance at the clock at what seems like three hours later and it’s 9:05 a.m. Time is only creeping along.

But then there are other times when you have so much to do. You start at 9:00 a.m., you work for five minutes, look up at the clock, and it’s 3:00 p.m. For these times we like to say “time is flying.” Guess what. Time hasn’t changed.

Whether you had a lot to do or a little to do, the clock was moving the same. You know what changed when time moved fast? You. Because you had so much to do, those activities occupied your thinking. It made it appear that the clock was spinning.

There is a way we can “hurry God up” without changing His clock. God is sovereign. He controls the clock, but if you will give your undivided attention to being His advertisement, and to pleasing Him, the time that you have to wait will seem to move a lot faster.961

[Waiting]

Ps. 38:15; Isa. 30:18; Mic. 7:7