Is it me, or it is for real? Recently lying on my bed I was thinking of
my childhood days. When we had a holiday the day at home was so long I
could enjoy the weather in morning, roam around the markets, play with
friends, seat and chat with parents and relatives. And after that too I
use to long for the day to finish soon. And I use to long to grow big so
that I am allowed to go here and there and now that I am grown up I go
nowhere. But now today the days run so fast I have to be intentional to
stop and really have to take time to enjoy and cherish such moments like
enjoying the weather, roaming around freely without any plans. Before I
use to long to finish the day, now I long that day stays for longer. I
have juggled even to sit and write something like this.
When we call and meet people we say oh! Hows life been? I have rarely
heard from someone that they are free? Everyone is busy from kids, to
parents, from youth to elders; everyone is busy in something or other. I
don’t know we are busy in what, doing what, what are we running after?
Before we use to pass the time but now time is passing us. But if I
really think little deeper the time has really never changed. It’s we
who have changed. It’s our priority, our responsibility, our
availability, our way of managing things, our lifestyle this are the
factors which makes us bound to things sometimes unnecessarily. We have
become slaves to the things, technologies, products, vehicles, virtual
world which we created to make things easier. But now they are consuming
us rather serving us.
We should really give priority to people and the things we love, so
that we really cherish every single moment of our life rather crying and
begging for time everywhere. We should be less dependent on things and
people, so that we use our own brain and body to enjoy rather than just
doing the thing. Do we understand the worth of time in our lives? My
friend was recently asking everyone how many hours do we sleep because
he wanted to analyze how many hours are productive in our life. Thinking
of it I was reminded that my sports teacher always use to say that half
of our lives are spent sleeping, then rest few in eating, and dressing
up and other daily routine we follow and so conclusions comes to that we
have very limited time on earth and its important to realize how we are
spending it?
What does the Psalmist have to say on this, Psalm 90:10 “The
years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly
away.” And verse 12 says “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.”
It’s a reminder to us that we do not have eternity here on earth;
therefore we should be wise and listen to God and gain wisdom from Him
and use our time wisely, according to His will. And we are not slaves to
anything because Jesus, only Son of God has set us free and if the Son
has set us free indeed we are free. We are free from bondage and any
kind of slavery but we are not freed to sin again if we look carefully
its been demanded that our actions will change no longer do we live in
same old patterns but now we live for the glory of God, as children of
God. Carefully living as salt and light unto the world, reminding them
of the Judgment day but by love we preach and live the gospel to save as
many as possible.
