How To See Eternity In A Clock

Time can be an unsettling thing.  It ticks and tocks to remind you of its existence, but often moves faster than we wish it would.  We have all undergone those moments of anxiety; the same, in which, we always wish our clocks shared some amount of sympathy for our busy state of existence.  As you may have already discovered, "patience" does not exist in time’s vocabulary; it waits for no one! But I would like to take this moment to brag, in that I have found victory over time itself.  My success is that God exists in every moment, and I remind myself to recognize those instants with Him. 

Watch the nearest second-hand baring clock to you.  As the second hand slowly pivots its way around the face, how many of those moments does God not exist within? If you say “None”, then acknowledge Him with every second.   

You have heard the phrase “Live in the moment”, and I very much agree with these words.  But to live for the time that is at hand does not exclude preparation and acknowledgement for the future or past.  In fact, the present is life’s perfect median between the two.  To “live in the moment” is to appreciate where the past has brought you from, as you simultaneously make steps towards the unpredictable that is before you.  But your heart and mind never have to escape life’s current presentation, as long as they avoid the blinders of guilt and worry.  Guilt comes from a lack of seeing Christ in our past, just as anxiety and worry are conceived when we do not expect Christ for our future.  But to see the past and future without these blinding factors is to see life through its most promising and sober perspective.

And so, look back at the clock, once again.  Remind yourself that God is in every moment.  Now live your life from this perspective.  The moments that you share in a realization of God’s ceaseless presence are times already acknowledging and appreciating your incessant state.  You are at rest with God from now to everlasting.  To see God in every moment is to already see life through eternity’s lens.