“Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring.” Proverbs 27:1 (NLT)
Fast As A Blink Of An Eye
It’s hard to believe, but in a few months I will have lived here in the mountains for forty years. Forty years! Pretty amazing for a gal who was only going to stay for one. (God and the guy in this photo changed that plan.) I honestly don’t know where those years have gone. My grandparents used to tell me that the older you get, the faster time passes. I didn’t understand it back then, but my goodness, I sure do get it now! In a blink of an eye, the 23 year old child pictured here, became the 63 year old sitting in front of this laptop today. A lot of life has been lived within the flutter of that eyelid. I pray for many more blinks before God changes my plan and leads me to a new home again, but we never know, do we?
“It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed.” 1 Corinthians 15:52 (NLT)
“However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.” Mark 13:32 (NLT)
The world shudders in fear as it awaits Jesus’s return. We can sense it all around us! The amazing thing is, when we know Jesus, fear is replaced with anticipation as we wait for Him. Maybe like me you’ve experiences a quiet trembling deep within your soul that’s a recognition we are standing on the brink of something great, something we long for and yet, do not understand.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 tells us that God “planted eternity in the human heart.” Just picture it: at the moment we accept the gift of salvation, Our Father buries a seed that begins to grow. It then takes root in our lives producing a hope that carries us through every day, month and year of this life, and then, in a “blink of an eye” into our future of life-eternal with Him.
Yes, it’s hard to believe how fast life passes…In a blink of an eye. We need to understand that with the simple opening and closing of an eyelid everything can change. Everything WILL change! My friends, we must be ready. Are you? There’s no time to waste.
“This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.” Romans 13:11 (NLT)
Don’t know what will happen,
nor what’s down that road,
but I’ll be just a-snappin’,
so light of mental load,
’cause all the worry I can do,
all the weltschmerz I can bring
won’t help me over, ’round or through,
and so I’ll skip and so I’ll sing
a song of joyful celebration
(though my voice won’t bear a tune),
that I hope gets elevation
and is heard well past the moon
to give the shade of Mozart tears
and make the angels plug their ears.
Yes we are one heartbeat away from eternity and the end will be so fast the time can’t be measured.
Your writing is so clear and poetic. You have a welcoming style, perfect for your testimony.
I’ve noticed, too, the speed of life. The days used to be long. They aren’t any more. The years have always been fast.
We have to be ready.