Deity Savings Time

(time is all relative)

Most of the United States switched to Standard Time this past weekend. The extra hour of sleep was great on Sunday, although our one year-old did not get the memo that 7:00 a.m. was now 6:00 a.m. I imagine most everyone remembered to change their clocks, what with messages to “fall back”, “turn the clocks back” and “gain an hour” displayed at every turn. Of course, we know time doesn’t really change in the spring and fall; we merely adjust our place in the time continuum. “Time and tide waits for no man”, wrote John Skot in Everyman. Time is a constant.

God is a constant. The creator of time is unconcerned with its passage. The apostle Peter quoted the Psalms when he said “With the Lord a thousand years are like a day”. Eternally existent, God’s love for us does not change. His concern for us does not change. His truth does not change. His plan for our life does not change.

So why then do we sometimes feel far from God? Because we have adjusted our place in His continuum. We’ve put ourselves on Deity Savings Time; moving the Lord around to suit our own needs and agendas; letting the light of His love shine at times that are convenient for us.

If you’re in a far from God place right now, “fall back”. I think you’ll find Him right where you left Him.

Brian

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