“DAILY”
DEVOTIONAL-Listening for the Spirit
WHAT TIME MEANS [F, 6-5-20]
A newcomer asked a
Nebraska farmer how he managed to get his hogs so fat.
“We pole them.”
“What’s that?”
“We tie a hog to a long
pole and hold it up to an oak tree so it can eat the acorns.”
“Doesn’t that take a lot
of time?”
“Hell, time don’t mean
nothin’ to a hog.”
Time don’t mean nothin’ to
most anybody these days. It just seems like we’re in one long day that has no
name. Most of us have to consult a calendar even to know what day of the week
it is. But, you know…
…time don’t mean nothin’
to God, either.
“A thousand ages in thy
sight is like an evening gone…” “When we’ve been ten thousand years…we’ve no
less time to sing God’s praise than when we first begun.”
We construct clocks and
calendars in order to get control of our days. Right now, God is reminding us
that our control of time is fleeting. The only control that matters is that of
God. Time don’t mean nothin’ if it is not used for love.”
JRMcF
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