A Limerick A Day to Keep You On Your Way©
A woman from the Universal Nation of Time,
Honoring Father Time constructed a timeless rhyme.
Born to die, every soul
Make heaven your future goal.
Past, Present, and Future: Humanity’s Paradigm.
Did you know God made time for man?
The Creator of the Universe has such a marvelous plan for us, His most precious creation. In the first book of the Bible, Genesis, we read how GOD made the two great lights to divide day and night.[1] They are our signs for seasons, days and years.
Adam and Eve were living in the time GOD created. It was an heavenly time of living in the Presence, the Presence of God himself. Their fellowship with the Creator lacked nothing. Nothing, until that fateful bite! The bite they were sure would bring more wisdom and knowledge then their loving Father had. They thought HE was holding out on them. Instead they were cast out of the Garden of Eden, the place of full provision. Seems cruel. But GOD instructed them when He said, “Do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” GOD always knows what is best and speaks truth. It was Satan, that snake, who stole their time. He did it with a lie because he is the father of lies.[2] He only comes to steal, rob and destroy.[3]
What was GOD to do?
GOD had to be sure they would not live forever because now they knew good and evil. They saw the goodness of The Tree of Life. Eating that fruit meant living eternally. GOD’s beloved creation of man used his free will to disobey Him. Adam and Eve would live on the earth forever. They could never imagine the evil that would multiply for all eternity.
So what was GOD to do? HE could have ended it all right then, especially Time. But that wasn’t His plan at all. There is purpose in all things.[4] GOD, in his loving kindness banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden so they could never eat of The Tree of Life. We, living in this present world, are painfully aware of how evil grows with every generation. Imagine if there was no end to it.
Why do you suppose we celebrate The New Year? Or birthdays, wedding anniversaries, holidays and all kinds of celebrations? We have our seasons, days, weeks months, years. God set time in motion for us. It helps us put things in order. It helps us record history so we do not forget what man is capable of. The motion of time will continue until the earth is no more.[5]
Evil has to be brought to its own end. God has orchestrated all the days until it is complete, perfectly complete, perfectly conquered. Evil will end. Only God knows what hour that is. HE needs us to fight against in the meantime.
Has GOD forgotten us?
In our meantime we may feel God has forgotten us.[6] HE hasn’t. HE has instructed us to trust Him at all times. Hear what Psalm 62:8 says, “ Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.” Now more than ever HE is our only hope.
What is Humanity’s Paradigm?
IF time consists of past, present, and future and that is the sum of all time as we know it on earth, then let us trust Him always.[7] IT is not a blind trust as one may think. No! it is being fully present. Fully alive. It’s not woke. It is awake.[8] Awake to live in the present, knowing the Time. Do you know what time it is?
Pray this prayer with me.
Dear GOD,
Thank You for Your perfect plan. All of time is held in Your Hand. Today I ask You to save my soul from evil’s eternity by the sacrifice of Jesus who paid all my debt. I wake from my sleep that has blinded me to any sin and repent of it all. Jesus today and everyday forward help me live in the freedom of salvation making my future, Eternity in heaven, a sure thing. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Footnotes are from BibleGateway , The King James Bible
[1] Genesis 1:14-19
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
[3] John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
[4] Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
[6] Lamentations 5:20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
[7] Psalm 62:8
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
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