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Do you ever feel like time accelerates as you get older?
One day you are packing away Christmas decorations, and before you know it they are back on the store shelves again. Each month of the calendar seems to zoom past as if somebody pressed fast-forward on your life.
Physicists say there is a scientific explanation. When life becomes routine your brain stops marking each moment. When you were a child life felt slower because everything was new. Think about it. First bike ride. First job. First vacation. First love. Your mind bookmarked those moments like mile markers along the road of life. Looking back, the journey felt long.
But once life becomes routine, the mile markers disappear. Same roads. Same job. Same schedule. Same weeks repeating themselves. Looking back, the miles blur together and suddenly an entire year has flashed past you.
Scientists can lecture you about your perception of time.
But they cannot explain what you know in your heart.
Why time feels like it is speeding up.
Time does not speed up because your brain chemistry changes. Time feels like it is speeding up because your days are numbered.
Moses wrote, “For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told” ~Psalm 90:9.
God’s Word does not speak about forgotten milestones. It speaks about life on earth coming to an end. Instead of a scientific explanation, Moses points to eternity when he writes, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten… yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away” ~Psalm 90:10.
Your life is passing quickly. And one day you will stand before God and give an account for the time you were given.
Job understood this truth. He wrote, “My days are swifter than a post: they flee away” ~Job 9:25.
Job did not have retirement dreams or family milestones ahead of him. Yet he clearly understood that our time on earth is temporary. “They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey” ~Job 9:26.
Imagine an eagle dropping through the sky toward its target. That is how quickly our days pass.
But here is the irony we all struggle with.
No one argues that life is temporary.
Yet everyone lives as if they have all the time in the world.
We look in the mirror and see ourselves getting older. We talk about it at birthdays and reunions. Where did the time go?
But once the party is over, we pack away the decorations and dive right back into life as if it will never end.
James speaks directly to that illusion. “For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” ~James 4:14.
Life is temporary. One moment you are here. The next moment you are gone.
The problem is not that life is speeding up.
The problem is that we are wasting the time we have been given.
Paul called believers to live differently. “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil” ~Ephesians 5:16.
To redeem the time means to treat each day as a gift from God, because one day that gift will run out.
The world spends its days chasing things that cannot satisfy.
We spend our days seeking comfort.
We spend our days chasing money.
We spend our days looking for entertainment.
We spend our days trying to numb the emptiness inside our hearts.
And beore we realize it, another year is gone.
Scripture explains why life often feels empty. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” ~Romans 3:23.
God created us to know Him and to live for His glory, but humanity chose to walk its own path.
Sin does more than steal our peace. It steals our eternity.
“For the wages of sin is death” ~Romans 6:23.
Death is not simply an expired calendar. It is separation from God.
But in the middle of our sin, God intervened.
Jesus Christ stepped into this broken world and lived the perfect life we could not live. Then He went to the cross and paid the penalty for sin. Scripture declares, “Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures” ~1 Corinthians 15:3.
Three days later He rose from the grave, proving that sin and death do not have the final word.
And if death does not have the final word, then neither does time.
The gift of eternal life is offered to those who trust in Jesus Christ. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” ~John 3:16.
But the call of the gospel requires a response.
Scripture says, “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out” ~Acts 3:19.
Time is running out.
As surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, every one of our lives is moving toward its end.
Yet even in that reality we see the mercy of God. The Lord gives us time because He desires repentance. As Scripture says, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise… but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” ~2 Peter 3:9.
Time itself is a gift from God.
The question is simple.
Will you waste the time you have been given?
Or will you redeem it?
Let’s pray. Dear Lord Jesus, forgive us for living life on our own terms. Forgive us for chasing things that cannot satisfy the emptiness of our hearts. Help us to trust You, to walk in Your truth, and to redeem the time You have given us. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
One day you are packing away Christmas decorations, and before you know it they are back on the store shelves again. Each month of the calendar seems to zoom past as if somebody pressed fast-forward on your life.
Physicists say there is a scientific explanation. When life becomes routine your brain stops marking each moment. When you were a child life felt slower because everything was new. Think about it. First bike ride. First job. First vacation. First love. Your mind bookmarked those moments like mile markers along the road of life. Looking back, the journey felt long.
But once life becomes routine, the mile markers disappear. Same roads. Same job. Same schedule. Same weeks repeating themselves. Looking back, the miles blur together and suddenly an entire year has flashed past you.
Scientists can lecture you about your perception of time.
But they cannot explain what you know in your heart.
Why time feels like it is speeding up.
Time does not speed up because your brain chemistry changes. Time feels like it is speeding up because your days are numbered.
Moses wrote, “For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told” ~Psalm 90:9.
God’s Word does not speak about forgotten milestones. It speaks about life on earth coming to an end. Instead of a scientific explanation, Moses points to eternity when he writes, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten… yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away” ~Psalm 90:10.
Your life is passing quickly. And one day you will stand before God and give an account for the time you were given.
Job understood this truth. He wrote, “My days are swifter than a post: they flee away” ~Job 9:25.
Job did not have retirement dreams or family milestones ahead of him. Yet he clearly understood that our time on earth is temporary. “They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey” ~Job 9:26.
Imagine an eagle dropping through the sky toward its target. That is how quickly our days pass.
But here is the irony we all struggle with.
No one argues that life is temporary.
Yet everyone lives as if they have all the time in the world.
We look in the mirror and see ourselves getting older. We talk about it at birthdays and reunions. Where did the time go?
But once the party is over, we pack away the decorations and dive right back into life as if it will never end.
James speaks directly to that illusion. “For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” ~James 4:14.
Life is temporary. One moment you are here. The next moment you are gone.
The problem is not that life is speeding up.
The problem is that we are wasting the time we have been given.
Paul called believers to live differently. “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil” ~Ephesians 5:16.
To redeem the time means to treat each day as a gift from God, because one day that gift will run out.
The world spends its days chasing things that cannot satisfy.
We spend our days seeking comfort.
We spend our days chasing money.
We spend our days looking for entertainment.
We spend our days trying to numb the emptiness inside our hearts.
And beore we realize it, another year is gone.
Scripture explains why life often feels empty. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” ~Romans 3:23.
God created us to know Him and to live for His glory, but humanity chose to walk its own path.
Sin does more than steal our peace. It steals our eternity.
“For the wages of sin is death” ~Romans 6:23.
Death is not simply an expired calendar. It is separation from God.
But in the middle of our sin, God intervened.
Jesus Christ stepped into this broken world and lived the perfect life we could not live. Then He went to the cross and paid the penalty for sin. Scripture declares, “Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures” ~1 Corinthians 15:3.
Three days later He rose from the grave, proving that sin and death do not have the final word.
And if death does not have the final word, then neither does time.
The gift of eternal life is offered to those who trust in Jesus Christ. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” ~John 3:16.
But the call of the gospel requires a response.
Scripture says, “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out” ~Acts 3:19.
Time is running out.
As surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, every one of our lives is moving toward its end.
Yet even in that reality we see the mercy of God. The Lord gives us time because He desires repentance. As Scripture says, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise… but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” ~2 Peter 3:9.
Time itself is a gift from God.
The question is simple.
Will you waste the time you have been given?
Or will you redeem it?
Let’s pray. Dear Lord Jesus, forgive us for living life on our own terms. Forgive us for chasing things that cannot satisfy the emptiness of our hearts. Help us to trust You, to walk in Your truth, and to redeem the time You have given us. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
