“Times and Periods”
What is time ? It is a certain period that either has not come yet or has already past. At that time many things happened instantaneously. Of course we don’t see or experience them all, but we do those in our own realm. Times are many periods throughout our lifespan. I think back over the years of periods that accumulated into times, everyone of them happened precisely on the time period that it was supposed to, except those that were foolishly changed. There are many who never consider how important the time periods are. The scriptures says, “My times are in your hands”. Meaning that those who love the Lord, He changes the periods of change in our lives. He changes our time into His time. We have an organ called the soul which is our mind, will and emotions. The will has the option to choose what we want and decide. The scripture also says, “ Our ways are not His ways and His ways are not our ways.
I have been a very impatient person and still wrestle with it. God gave me a wonderfully patience wife. Well, you know, God said, we became one flesh. So, that means I acquired some more patience. Oh, over a period of time some of hers rubbed off on me. I sometime see something and want to buy it right then, the other side of me, which is my patient wife will say, let’s search out this thing and see if this is a good deal or not. What ? This is a cheap one time deal, we need to get it now, or it might be gone while we’re gone a searching !. Well over the years of times I’ve learned to be a little more patient, from my patient other half. When God sent my wife at that certain time, He knew that there would be many time periods of change coming my way.
Down through the ages there were things said by the prophets that would happen at a certain period of time and they happened exactly at that time. If God can say those things and they happen that way so many years apart, He must have planned the whole shebang. Wouldn’t it be smart to walk through life in His way and not ours. I don’t know about you but I’ve made a lot of mistakes not doing something or doing something or doing something too soon or too late.
The divorce rate is 50% in America today, so that adds up to half of America changing time in my way of thinking. It not only changes our time, but our children’s future times also. Just one example: Our children were supposed to love us always. How did that work out after the divorce?
As I look out of our window at all the trees on the Mountain side, they all germinated at different time periods and became times. In our government there have been certain periods when certain people were elected to hold office. Some had more or lesser power to make changes. They happened at a certain period of time that changed time periods for the worse. It seems that good changes are a rarity now days. When we were born, God gave us all certain rights at that period of time. When some of those people were elected to office, they either knowingly or unknowingly began to nullify those rights. What? God said , “your ways are not my ways”. Do you think it would have been better to patiently search out the person’s ways before electing him to office? Do we want our times to be in his hands or Gods? We have a nation full of officials that are changing our times. The blood of the unborn cry out, their future times were cut off for convenience of time.
Time, to some of us is our worst enemy. There is not enough time in the day. I don’t have enough time to do this or do that. There’s not enough daylight left. I can’t help you today I have to do something else. Time, no time, sounds like a lot of time planning by me and not God. You know, we worry so much about time. We say things like, life’s just too short. We hear things like, my time is running out. We have lived so long on God’s green earth that we live with an underlying fear of dying and never seeing it again. I believe at one time God said, we will never die, we only shed this old body, We live forever. So stop worrying, forever is a long time.
In an earlier Post, I mentioned back in 1968 I was trying to live the carefree hippie life. I had one time only tried the hallucinogenic drug called acid. I had a vivid vision of a clock like image with a time line, when the hour hand reached straight up the age said death, 69. I worried about this for years, just knowing that I would die at 69 years. I was born again in 1979 and those fears left. I am now 74 years old and you can guess I didn’t die. The devil tried to convince me that my times were in his hands. The world is full of people who live in fear of that kind of devilish nonsense. Time has never been in his hands and never will be. God holds the keys to the time of our departure, our times are in His hands.
Well, it’s time for me to stop writing and go out, start up the saw mill, cut the lumber to build a new chicken pen. The baby chicks were born a week ago and at a certain time period they will outgrow the small pen they are in. I would like to sit here longer but as the old saying goes “ times a wasting” , those chicks are a growing and the pen had better be ready.
Your future times will be in God’s hands if we let Him. I see so many weary people who have ruined their future, wonderful time periods by making bad choices. God’s time choices are perfect. He plans our times and periods much better than we can. His scripture says, “commit your ways to him and He will guide your paths”.
David McClary
“A voice from the Mountain”
4/23/2016