The Beauty of Time

It seem as though we are naturally impatient creatures, and we desire many of the very things that we shouldn't. It's like we manipulate our conscious and persuade our mind to believe that we are running out of time; just to attain vain desires in a societal time-frame. We chase after money because we feel like there's security attached to it. We chase after women and men because we acknowledge an emptiness inside; but we feel like that's the only way to fill it. We chase after the approval and trends of others, because we want to feel accepted and not alone. But what about God?

Oftentimes, it's challenging for us to fully trust God, because society has painted the picture of the "perfect timeline". So, instead of trusting God, we are pressured. Pressured to fit into a social order and not be considered "too old for that". Peer pressure. We think that peer pressure is only relevant in adolescent ages, but in actuality, its very prominent among adult association.

So, what time is it? Well, if we're judging time by the possessions that everyone else have, when they have it, we don't have long before we begin to look like we're behind in time. Because keeping up with the Joneses, will keep us back from Jesus. And in Christ alone is found perfection. The perfection of our timeline and time-frame. Many of us lose patience, and even faith in God, because of the microwave mind-frame that we have. We lose patience and faith in God, because we feel like He's taking too long with the plan that we want for ourselves. But that's the problem, it's not the plan and will that God has for us, it's the plan and will that we have for ourselves. Our focus is on us, and this makes our hope temporal instead of eternal.

The beautiful thing about God is that His time isn't our time. And many times, His plan isn't our plan. But it's perfect. So whenever "it seems like it's taking too long", we must trust the author of time with the perfection of our timeline.

Let's trust God together,

Carlis Howze