When Time Surrenders...

You will notice the three dots in the title.  This is leaving room for something to be added to those three words: When Time Surrenders.  Think for a minute.  What might you add to go along with the title?  What happens when time surrenders, and to what might it surrender?

It could be a battery-operated clock.  Time surrenders to the battery when it runs out of power.  Time stands still, and we know this because the minute and hour hands on the face cease to move.

Or perhaps this surrender could very well include a microwave oven, for example.  You set the timer, but if, for some unknown reason, the breaker serving that oven trips at the main service panel, what happens?  Time is no more.  Things in the microwave cease to cook.  The microwave ran out of time because time surrendered to the electric breaker.

It seems that time is certainly dependent on a multitude of things in this world.

Since God spoke creation into existence, time has indeed been a factor.  I read in Scripture, 2 Peter 3:8: “With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

What happens when the time God created stops, and time is no more?

You and I, and all humanity, have a limited amount of time to enjoy God’s handiwork.  The amount of time we may have is recorded in Psalm 90:10: “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years…”

That’s 70 years, or 80 years if one is especially strong.  If a person lives longer than this allotted time, someone might say, “They are living on borrowed time.”

My thought is this: since time is so precious, yet limited when compared to eternity, we need to make a life-changing decision before time runs out on us.

Time will one day surrender to death.

That is fact, not fiction, even though people hide from it in their minds.  There is no turning back the clock of time, recharging one’s depleted energy pack, or buying a brand-new breaker, as it were.

I’m talking about the life-changing decision that determines where we spend eternity.

By their actions—or lack thereof—some people live as if they will live forever in this finite housing called flesh.  They don’t want to face the fact that one day time is going to cease for them.

I understand their position.  It’s too scary to face each day knowing that our time is limited, so they live in a self-made vacuum of “hear no evil; speak no evil; see no evil,” a playground of procrastination.

Whether they want to face reality or not, living as though there will always be a tomorrow does not change the final outcome of life and death.

Hebrews 9:27 says: “And as it is appointed unto men to die once, but after this the judgment.”

It’s like they are living on borrowed time and refuse to face the reality of the inevitable.

God has limited our time to surrender our souls to Him before our time on earth surrenders to death.

Why test fate and lose our soul?  Today is the day of salvation.  Time is not on our side.  The inevitable speaks words of encouragement today through my thoughts and these words.

Time is running out.  Don’t wait until it’s too late.

Mark 8:36 asks: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

Written by,

Papa Boyd