Live by Faith

Life has a way of slipping by into tomorrow.  Maybe time creeps along for the very young who mark time by the passing of Christmas, but for those who have flipped one December into January more times than can be counted, life races more than creeps.  The Word of God tell us to "...make the most of the time..." (Ephesians 5:16), but few of the gray haired ones comb their hair each morning without some wish for a "do-over" or two.  If only life would provide us a body filled with thirty year old energy and seventy year old wisdom, but alas, such is the wistful thinking of which dreams are made.  

There is an adage drifting around which reminds us that we cannot do anything about our beginning, but that we can do something about where we are.   Life is full of changing seasons and once again a trip to the Word of God reminds us that there are more seasons than four.  Ecclesiastes 3 has a list, but it is just a partial list. Most of us have experienced some seasons not listed in those sacred eight verses.  Of course, what is important to always keep before us is that God is the creator of time.  Another truth to stand alongside the first one is that God gives time as a gift to each of us.  

Why some have more time than others is part of the mystery of of the creation of which we are a part.  I know many a glib and trite answer to the indiscriminate way time is dispersed and given, but none of them really hold water.  No matter how much we might want to make sense of it, we cannot.  Once again, the Word calls us to live this life and the time which is given to us not by what we know, but by faith in the One who holds the key to it.  The great roll call of saints in Hebrews 11 speaks of the saints living according to faith.  Such is how each one of us are called to live.  To say we live by faith is not to bury our heads in the sand, but to acknowledge who we are and who holds yesterday, today, and tomorrow.