Today, and Tomorrow

By Shirley Wiggins

“Humans live in time but (God) destines them to eternity.” … “For the Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity.”  --- C. S. Lewis.

 

Time touches eternity.  Time is mine.  This present time is mine.  Mine to truly live, or mine to waste.  Which do I choose?   Easy!  I choose to fully live out my life in the here and now, in the present. 

 

For a time is coming, well on its way, when “time” as we know it shall be no more.  Time will have run out, reached its last moment here on this earth, for it will have run out here and begins in God’s eternal promised forever time with Him.

 

I can hardly imagine a life lived free of the pressing urgency to hurry.   Hurry, hurry, hurry up!

 

Hurry up and eat; hurry up and sleep, hurry up and work, hurry up and rest, hurry up and read, talk, walk, laugh, cry --- Hurry up and?  Die.   And, then what?

 

Today melts away, and in the night becomes tomorrow.   Tomorrow becomes today when I wake, and when I fall asleep blends again into --- tomorrow. 

 

But tomorrow always turns again into today… On and on and on…. Until…?

 

♪“Tomorrow!  Tomorrow!  I love ya,’ tomorrow!  … Tomorrow is only a day away!”  ♪

 

Tomorrow.  But what did I do with Today?

 

Numerous trains of thought run swiftly on their tracks, making me forget some most important facts:   both today and tomorrow are gifts from God.  Gifts filled with the precious, priceless commodity:  TIME!

 

What to do with it?  Oh dear, what to do with my time today?

Today is NOW, what am I doing NOW, while I live?

While I live…

Spiritual hunger for intimate communion with God is a birth born in human hearts, a birth ordained by God, a gift of grace.

Take time for fellowship with the God Who made us, --- and then, for those who have asked, or will ask, God has remade us.   We love Him because He first loved us.  Then He saved us, to live life dearly loved in and through and with Him for time… and eternity!

Psalm 63  A Psalm of David; when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.

¹ O God, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my inner self thirsts for You, my flesh longs and is faint for You, in a dry and weary land where no water is.

² So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary to see Your power and Your glory.

³ Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.

⁴ So will I bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.

⁵ My whole being shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips

⁶ When I remember You upon my bed and meditate on You in the night watches.

⁷ For You have been my help, and in the shadow of Your wings will I rejoice.

⁸ My whole being follows hard after You and clings closely to You; Your right hand upholds me.

⁹ But those who seek and demand my life to ruin and destroy it shall [themselves be destroyed and] go into the lower parts of the earth [into the underworld of the dead].

¹⁰ They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be a prey for foxes and jackals.

¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him [that is, who binds himself by God’s authority, acknowledging His supremacy, and devoting himself to His glory and service alone; every such one] shall glory, for the mouths of those who speak lies shall be stopped.

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)  Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation

 “We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.  For He says:  ‘In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.’  Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”  2 Corinthians 6:1-2   (emphasis mine.)

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”  2 Corinthians 13:14

 What will you do with your time today?