Time Flies

Tomorrow my wife, Dorcas, and I are traveling to Lynchburg, Virginia, USA, to attend the graduation exercises at Liberty University, where Dorcas' brother, Christian, will be one of the graduates.

It is amazing to think that four years have passed by so quickly. I can still remember July of 2006 so vividly, when God worked a miracle to get Christian accepted into Liberty with head-spinning rapidity, well after the normal application deadline had passed for everyone else.

One lesson that I've learned between July 2006 and May 2010: time flies.

Psalm 102:3 (TNIV) talks of how "my days vanish like smoke", and Psalm 102:11 (TNIV) says, "My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass." In Psalm 103:15-16 (TNIV), David sings, "As for mortals, their days are like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more."

Four years have felt like four minutes since the moment that Christian first packed his bags in 2006 and headed off to Liberty University. Now it's 2010, four years later, and he's graduating.

Four years have passed like smoke, like an evening shadow, like grass, like a flower of the field.

Or like dust in the wind, as Kansas sang.

Your time on this planet is vanishing quickly, and perhaps quicker than you even think or know. Don't get caught short. "Make the most of every opportunity," as Ephesians 5:16 (TNIV) tells us. Redeem the time.

For all we are is dust in the wind.

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