IT’S ABOUT - TIME Who has enough time?  All of us on occasion talk about not having enough time.  At time we feel like we can’t do this or we can’t do that simply because we don’t have enough time.  Time is one thing that is equally given to all regardless of age,  gender, or race.  What we do with it is our business.  We can squander away the time and opportunities that time brings with it or we can choose to seize the opportunities and make our time productive.   One thing is for sure about time.  From our human perspective we are all   running out of it.  The Bible speaks of three-score and ten as an average life    expectancy (Ps. 90:10).  With the help of science, we may be able to expand our time somewhat today.  We all know with certainty, however, that we will one day run out of time; and we will die.  In contrasting our life experiences with the time term, “eternity,” our experiences are not very long.  With our limited understanding of eternity, our lives might be defined as   simply a few days (Job 14:1).  James speaks of our life experience, whatever the years may be, as being like a morning fog or vapor that appears only for a little while and then is gone, it vanishes away  (Jas. 4: 14).   Those who choose to listen to the counsel of the Father in heaven will choose to walk responsibly, not as fools, jokesters, and good-old-boys do but rather as those who possess some wisdom (Eph. 5:15).   These will choose to redeem or use time effectively as their friend because they are aware of the fact that windows of opportunities open and close every day (Eph. 5:16).   Time is something our God created.  We cannot fathom existence without the concept of time.  We must realize, however, that time is relative and is narrow from our earthly perspective.  For example our earth takes 365.25 days to go around our sun once.  We define that in earth terms as a year.  All other planets in our solar system define a year differently.  It takes over 200 of our earth years for the planet Pluto to go around our sun one time.  God’s perspective of time also is different from ours.  Our perspective of time has a beginning and an ending.  God’s definition has no such limitations.  This is beyond our ability to grasp or maybe even believe.  The evolutionist tries to wrestle with the question of time and is constantly pushing things back in earth terms farther and farther into the past with all their evolving theories that are time based.   The God of the Bible asks His children by faith to believe in His definition of time.  His definition simply is that it is bigger than anything you can imagine for it has no beginning and it has no end.  This, of course, has to be true if God is the one God who is ultimately in charge of and controls all.  To wrestle with this idea, one does expand one’s idea of God Himself.  It also humbly reminds us of our smallness and insignificance in the eternal and universal picture.   God’s people understand that our vapor life experience will end and after that will begin our eternal experience.  Another realm or dimension will begin after we experience physical death.  It will be eternity either with or without God.  We are in control and get to choose.  One-hundred percent will get what they want.  Those who care about a relationship with God will judge themselves worthy of an eternal relationship by learning of Him and obeying Him.  Others who devalue the thought of having a relationship with God and don’t have one will in eternity continue to be without God forever,        God reveals to us that all will have a new eternal frame and will experience either joy, light, and blessings in being with God forever; or they will experience sadness, darkness, and sorrow forever being absent from God’s        presence.  After death the Christian will realize that things have in eternity gotten considerably better.  After death those who reject God’s grace will realize with     certainty how much worse things are without God’s influence for good.   Jesus does promise everlasting life to those who express their belief in Him by obeying His counsel (Jn. 3:16).    The one who chooses to place families and things as secondary to their relationship to Jesus will be blessed in the here and now one hundredfold and get the bonus of eternal life (Mt. 19:29).  God is looking for people to love Him as number one and are willing to express that love by both learning of Him and then doing His will.  Drinking or consuming the refreshment that   Jesus makes available allows His people to become sources of refreshment to all the lives they touch ultimately into everlasting life (Jn. 4: 14).  God has big plans for all created in His image.  Those plans are either realized among those who choose to believe or they are denied by those who choose not to care and therefore disbelieve. Those who die without a relationship with God through Jesus Christ are promised eternal life (consciousness) in a new eternal frame and are judged by  Jesus as being worthy of everlasting punishment (Mt. 25:46).  It is a serious thing to reject the sacrifice of His Son on the cross that allows God to be forgiving, gracious, merciful and just in dealing with your sin problem.   Choose life IN Christ now, and at the same time choose everlasting life     because of what Christ has done for you at the cross.  To do anything else is to make time and eternity your eternal enemy.  Repent and use the time you have to learn of the love and grace of God clearly revealed in Jesus Christ.