NO TIME!

" THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS ARE THREESCORE YEARS AND 10; AND IF BY REASON OF STRENGTH; THEY BE FOURSCORE YEARS, YET IS THEIR STRENGTH LABOR AND SORROW; FOR IT IS SOON CUT OFF, AND WE FLY AWAY.... SO TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS, THAT WE MAY APPLY OUR HEARTS UNTO WISDOM." PSALM 90; 10,12.
   People speak of a "moment to remember" " Those who have fewest regrets," Mark van Doren once said, " are those who take each moment as it comes for all it is worth.
  Moses described as a  man of God, said pretty much the same thing with his eyes locked on God, The days of our years are three score and 10 and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow.; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away....So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
  One of the saddest lines in history for someone who worked hard to accomplish great things is that time ran out. Time has a way of doing that, a fact of life that affects us all.
 Were does it go, all that time which people count on and treat as if it is never going to end and treat as if it is of  little or no importance?
 How often haven't you heard someone say, " I have no time." When you think about it, it is a strange statement to make. People who say,"I have no time" always have time!  Those who have no time are dead At least, they are not alive here on earth. Anyone who is here on earth has time.
 We all have the same amount of time.-24 hours a day. We may not have as much time as we like to think, or as others would like us to spend on some endeavor that may or may not  be important, but we all have time.
  When you say you have no time for something, it probably means that the " something" is not important enough to spend your time on it. You have to spend your time. It won't  keep in a bank, not even with a time lock on it. ( Back in 1993), Paul Rees in his magazine " World Vision," tells us the story of a young man  being sentenced by a judge for committing a crime. The judge tried to shame the young man by reminding him that he was the son of a distinguished lawyer. " Yes," replied the, youth bitterly, " when I went to dad for companionship or advice he would glance up from the law book he was reading and say ,'Run away boy, I'm busy,' My Father completed his law book and here I am. Time for the boy is more important than time for a book, even if you are the author of that book.
 "No time" is the classic excuse people give for paying no attention to God. He can keep on talking until He is blue in the face, but they have no time to listen. When you back them up in a corner somewhere, they will admit that this "no time" business  is probably senseless  and even foolish. Some how they will work things out with God when the right time comes around.
  The right time said the Psalmist, " is right now. Time is a-wasting and people who have no time for God the most precious commodity they have. What good is money-millions of it- if you have no time to use it?  What good is health and the enjoyment of family life if you have no more time?  With " no time" for God, people are busier than ants and less productive, just looking for ways to kill time by pure busyness. " Theirs a time to pray and a time to play."
The Psalmist was talking real life, coming from God and going to God He focused on God, as he had learned to do:' "Lord" he said, Thou has been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hast formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting. Thou are God. thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return you children of men.
 For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carried them away as with a flood; they are  as asleep: In the morning they are like grass it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.
  " No time for God" is like saying, " No time for life.-no time for faith, no time for love, no time for ever saying, 'Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
    Jesus is for life. His life was productive of redemption for the world. He offers the world real life.