SCRIPTURE Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Psalm 39:5
THOUGHT Not all minutes are created equal.
Holding a baby, ten minutes time seems to fly. But ten minutes inside the MRI tube, listening to its click and gong and staccato punch, can feel like an eternity. Each bang seems to put another nail in the coffin of earthly dreams, reminding me that life is like a vapor. When it clears, I see more clearly what’s been there all along. Entropy, decay, death…eternity.
Without the end of the story, we might well be depressed. Because whether the minutes move slowly or quickly, we are not in control of time. The Psalmist of old tells us that our days are numbered, but a host of voices in scripture tell us not to be afraid of that truth. If the numberer of days and giver of breath wills, we will accomplish what needs to be done (Ja. 4:15). And he will accomplish what he has promised (Is. 55:11).
Part of his promise is the empty tomb – life will go on when the vapor is chased away. We will see more clearly, and lean more deeply on the unseen than we do now. We are an Easter people marking invisible time with invisible breaths, and our invisible God has a plan for eternity.
PRAYER God of each breath, of resurrection and eternity, help me trust you with every minute and every breath you give me, not hoarding, not wasting, just trusting, just leaning.
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