Where Did The Years Go In Christ
65A young boy
I was sitting at home looking at a church program and someone joined the church. It seemed to give me a flash back in time. A time in which I gave my hand to the preacher and my heart to God.
I started to wonder where did the time go? The preacher that led me to Christ has been called from labor to rest. The young singers of which I was a part are now old like me, married, have grandchildren or they have left this life. I must question, where has the years gone?
I joined the church as a young man and my friends laughed at me. As time passed, more and more of them started to join. Over the years, our hair started to grey, next it started to thin and we started to bald.
The children, then grandchildren, became the topic of conversation. Before long, everyone was getting a knee replacement or a heart operation; where has the time gone? The time we thought we had forever, has now slipped up on us. Our steps are shorter and you get tired more quickly; where has the time gone?
As I watch my favorite television programs, I fall asleep on one and wake up on another, but I don't get upset about it, because I will see it again sometime.
My time reading the word of God is more and more important to me. I thought about reading in the book of Job. It said his last days were better than his first days and I believe this is true, but what happened to the time?
The middle years
During my middle years, I thought I could do anything at anytime. Stay up all night and work all day! As a young man I thought time was on my side, I would live forever and I did not have to put a lot of importance on taking care of my body, because I would heal fast. Now I get a scare on my body and it takes it weeks to heal.
I am now paying the price for the neglect of my youth. During the time I was in the army, I could stay up all night and go on a twenty five mile road march the next day.
I now pay the price for some of the things I did as a young man, the bill has come do! But the thing that stays in the back of my mind is where did the time go?
It seems only yesterday I could run and jump and do all the things I see these young people do, all of a sudden, I find my running days has long since passed and I get tired just walking up stairs; where has the time gone?
Slowly, but surely I have come to the point in time that I know it won't be long now. I have had a good life and have no regrets, I just wonder where has the time gone?
Looking back
Looking back I would not trade my life for anything or anyone. God has been good to me and I can hold my head up, because of the grace and mercy that has been shown me from the Savior above.
I look at the young people of today and I am glad I have lived to see this point in my life. A life that has been full of adventures in the world and in Christ. It is good to no you are a child of God.
When I wonder where has the time gone? I am glad I gave so much of that time with my Lord and Savior. Where is a better place you could make an investment? The retirement plan that the Savior has put in place is too much to handle.
Only those that have given their life no the goodness of our God, our Lore and Savior.
Conlusion
I don't know when it will be my time. I still wonder where has the time gone? I have been blessed, with the blessings of the Holy Father and whenever it is my time I can only look forward to spending time with the Father, the author and finisher of the Faith . Can you think of a better place to spend eternal life?
He has let my last days be my best days. I am not rich, but comfortable. God has truly been good to me, I can not complain about the life He has given me.
He gave me a beautiful wife and family. He blessed me so much and I know that everything I have above zero, I received as a blessing from God Himself.
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Thanks for reading me. Thanks for the encouragement. So many times as you well know, you wonder if you are the only one thinking this way. You write it, because you must. Some times you have no choice,but to write what the Lord has put on your heart!
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glmclendon: Brother at 64, I too have to ask the same question to myself. Where did the time go? Yet when I survey my walk with God, I have to ask myself why did it take so long for me to get to know HIM, and to learn what he wants and expects of me.
Then it hits me, being raised and brought up in the Catholic Faith, was my biggest stumbling block because we were and are brainwashed into thinking what the Catholic Church teaches and accepting its teachings as blindly as we accept God. It was not until I actually sat down with my Bible and began reading it, that I understood and could see, just as Jesus blinded Saul and then finally let him see again, the Catholic church had blinded me, but once I opened up the Bible and began understanding the scriptures, Jesus let me to see, to see things in a different light, in God's Holy Truth.
Amazing Grace I was blinded but now I see. God opened my spiritual eyes to His truth. The blind will see, the dumb will speak, thanks to God and His Word and thanks to God Calling me to serve.
Thanks for reading me. Study to show thy self approved. The years go by and we become wiser. Where there is no vision the people fail.
We are all trying to make it and with the help of God. We will make it to the other shore.
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Sparklea 3 months ago
Terrific hub! I agree, where has the time gone? I wrote a poem a long time ago that began with these words, "Another minute of my life has just passed by, my enemy, the clock, smiles again." I've learned what's important is how we live every precious minute. YOU are living life! That's what's important. You and I both love to write. This is one reason I joined hub pages, to share my thought with others, like you, and hopefully inspire readers. You are doing a terrific job of doing this! KEEP WRITING. You have such a big heart! Blessings, Sparklea :)