Time’s Up!

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Well, now that we we’ve got our Permanent Residency Card and our E-card for Panama, it’s time to go get our four-year driver’s license. No hurry though, the expiration date on our current license reads “12/03/2016.” We’ve got like nine months … right? WRONG! Wrong country, wrong system, wrong date = wrong Wiziardes!
The U.S. records dates ordered by Month/Day/Year. This is known as the Middle-endian dating system. The majority of the world uses the Little-endian system, placing the day first and then the month. Only a handful of nations use the Big-endian system … and it would be the minority if it weren’t the favored system of populous China. I personally like Canada’s solution. According to Wikipedia, they use all three. No wonder the world likes them J. Anyway, all that to say … instead of having nine months, our Panamanian driver’s licenses are EXPIRED.

So what calendar are you living by? By which time system do you recon life? While it’s not often expressed, one popular scheme (Existential Materialism) measures time like this … “Get what you can, while you can, because this life is all you get.” Another says, “Careful how you live, what goes around comes around.” That’s Karma. But what does God’s word say about time?

God’s Mercy: The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

(2 Peter 3:9)

Our Brevity: You sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning: In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered. Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. 

(Psalm 90:12; see also Psalm 39:4 and Job 14:5)

Our Mission: As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 

(John 9:4)

Let’s get on God’s time system. If you haven’t yet, start by accepting his patient mercy … while there’s time!


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