Staring at me thru my study usta be window (now a trinket-dust gatherer) is my Granny's mantle clock. It just reminded me of the half-hour, but is gathering steam to reach 10 o'clock with accompanying tones. On occasion, it runs the limit of my windings and refuses further comment on time until I take action.
Unlike Joshua, whose request that the sun and moon stopped their appointed march through the heavens, I cannot, by grasping the pendulum to halt it's movement bring time to a halt. Stopping my time piece has no effect on time's hurried pace. Each of us is a prisoner of time and the intriguing thing is the ticking of our biological clock!
All beauty aids and wrinkle combatants aside, you can't fool 'mother nature' for long. Cut-and-tuck, hair coloring, physical exercise may offer a certain camoflage, and you may request 'no more birthday celebrations' but the clock is still ticking. Of this I am a first-hand witness!
Do the Scriptures assist us here? Psalm 90:12 admonishes us: "Teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." Now it is easy to number our past days, but impossible to count those ahead, so marking time that has past may serve to remind us how quickly it passes. What then, shall we do about our present tense experience? "Be very careful,then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil" was the caution offered by Paul the Apostle (Ephesians 5:15,16).
Shall we go out and buy a gallon of time as we would gasoline? Not so. But to cram life into every minute, taking advantage of every opportunity and putting away the thought: "I'll do that when I have time." That's the kicker! We cannot store up this precious commodity, so instead of spending it, let's invest it!
Remember, you can't stop the pendulum.
