Time

Today, my sister drove back to College Station while I rode. The ride started nice, not sunny and just right. We listened to Spiritual Machines. Later on the rain started up then it began to pour down. Then it began to pour down hard. We made it safely. In the moments when the rain was coming down the hardest, I thought to myself, it would be so easy just to lose control and die right now. If you haven’t listened to Spiritual Machines, then you should, it’s a great album. There is a part where this guy is talking and he says something along the lines of, “Take death for example, a great deal of our effort goes to avoiding it and we make extraordinary efforts to delay it. We often consider it to be a tragic event, but we find hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives, it gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it…”

I began thinking about all of the things, both spiritually and physically, I was putting off till later. What if later never comes around? Will I be ultimately be held accountable for those things?

No, these thoughts aren’t original and I’m sure someone has said these words before, but I’m glad we drove in danger today. If that danger hadn’t been put in my life, then I wouldn’t be thinking of these things.

Daily God is throwing things our way in so many different ways to get our attention, but our “God-antenna” isn’t quite working for whatever reasons. How does he get our attention then? Through danger? Perhaps. Through death? Perhaps.

Make sure your “God-antenna” is working right. How do we do this? Ask him for help. When I think something is wrong with my car engine or I just want to see if it’s working right, I don’t do it myself or ask someone who is ignorant in that area for help. No! I’ll take it to a shop where those people are trained to check engines. It is there job. It is what they do. God is like our mechanic in the way that he knows what is wrong and can fix it. If I try and look around myself, I won’t be able to locate the problem because I would know where to look. I could buy a how-to manual and I might be able too work something out, but I may just screw things up even more and get discouraged since I don’t know.

This is why we NEED God to fix things for us, to fix our antenna so we can hear him clearly. Without it, we’re lost. Without Him, we’re lost.

Back to the whole time thing. It is easy. We have limited time on Earth. We must not be lazy. God has not called us to do so. We must not survive, but instead we need to thrive. THRIVE! I’m not even sure if I know what this looks like in my own life, but I’m striving to get there. May your life thrive now and if it’s not, may you get there. If you were once there, but your “antenna lost the signal”, may you be fixed and return to thriving.