If you’re listening to this podcast near its release date, you are living in the mid-twenties. Sounds strange, doesn’t it? The mid-twenties? At least it sounds strange to me as someone whose grandparents were all born in the twenties! So in that respect, I think of the twenties as being in the past… not the present.
The nature of time is strange as we tend to perceive it differently based upon where we are in life. This poem puts it well:
When as a child I laughed and wept,
Time crept.
When as a youth I waxed more bold,
Time strolled.
When I became a full grown man,
Time RAN.
When older still I daily grew,
Time FLEW.
Soon I shall find, in passing on,
Time gone.
O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then?
Amen.
The author was born in the 20’s… the 1820’s. Apparently, they had the same problem back then.
The cruel enigma of time has been a concern for millennia.
In Psalm 90, Moses expressed that God is eternally magnificent, but man’s life is often checkered, despite its brevity. Which led Moses to petition God in verse 12,
So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Moses is asking God to reveal to us the brevity of life. That revelation will help us increase wisdom, which is crucial because the choices we make during our brief stay on earth have eternal consequences.
As we grapple with time and disappearing years, we would be wise to travel through our remaining days with our eyes open, to look and see what we may be missing. Lord willing the next episodes will be examining “Seven Looks” we should be making in the New Year.
