Time Flies in the Face of Reality

Wasn't it yesterday when I was wondering if it would ever warm up? Sunday as we were leaving the church house the rain decided to pick up, but thankfully the hail we had forty-five minutes earlier was over. Cold, hot, cold, hot—this time of the year we never are certain what tomorrow will bring.

A few months ago when I put up one picture this one came with it. Now is the time this picture would apply. Beautiful sunrise with the hope of a beautiful day. As with the weather and our not knowing what tomorrow will bring, it's the same with life in general.

Some people believe what we think on becomes our reality. For example if you sit and worry about becoming addlepated when you're older that's what will happen. Or if you worry about becoming disabled, ditto, that's what happens. I'm here to tell you that that belief is erroneous. On my way to the age I am I absolutely never had time to sit and worry over what would happen when I got older. I actually never thought I'd reach 'older'.

Before I turned twenty I believed I would die young—in my twenties. But then at eighteen I got married, and ten months later lived through our first child ... and life took over with children, family, career, house, and much more. At twenty-nine I did almost die, but we beat that back and continued on. Ten years ago I never thought I'd retire, and I haven't, it just takes me much longer to get my work done.

The odd thing is life has more often than not been like the jack-in-the box toy I had when young. I've turned the handle and things happened. Mostly things I didn't expect to happen, happened. Some good things happened and some other things happened. But very little happened that I had anything to do with.

Choices—we should take choices in this life more seriously. I've tried to tell younger folks, my children, grandchildren, kids in my classes, I've tried to tell them, don't take any choice/decision lightly. Some of the most important decisions we make will appear to be easy and cut and dried.

Career, marriage? Do I buy a car, and what kind? Children? To have children or not? And the person you marry should have the same values as yourself. I remember a caller on the Dr. Laura show asking about how to decide what church she and her husband's children should attend since they weren't of the same religion. Basically, Dr. Laura said, "It doesn't matter, does it." The caller was shocked, What do you mean?" Dr. Laura said, "If it had mattered you would have chosen someone within your own faith."

The two most important decisions a young person will ever make is number one, to become a faithful Christian, and who they will marry.

Ecclesiastes 11:9 "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment."