It's a Race against Time

How much time do you have to complete your assignment here on planet earth? Are you living life with intensity? You need a sojourner mentality. The realization that what you do now will affect what you become tomorrow and for eternity. You are only here for a season. Everything you do matters.

Are you constantly planning? Do you have a strategy for Project Life? Do you know what you want, when and how you will accomplish it? As the clock ticks towards the midnight of our lives, we should not be found wanting. We must be ready. We must deliberately prepare for tomorrow and not be taken by surprise. This means being able to see the end from the beginning?

When we know how important our mission is, we will place it in the urgent tray for us to deal with it. Reflect on your relationships. Your marriage. Your spouse. Are there issues to sort out. Are you living worlds apart even though “officially” you are supposed to be man and wife. Can you sort it now while you still have your being? Why not enjoy each other as God intended.

Jesus did not mince his words, “ Work while it is day, for the night is coming when you cannot work”. We must work with a sense of urgency like we are going to board the next flight.

Jesus knew this from the start. He had three years to complete his mission. Not much but he crammed everything in that time and on one Friday afternoon, while hanging on a wooden cross he cried, “It is finished”.

Not so with many of us. Twenty, thirty, forty or even sixty years down the line, we have nothing to show for all these years. Loads of unfinished business. Unforgiveness, hate, worry and stinking baggage that we continue to carry. Sad. But it is never too late. You can start now. At least plan for the next three years as Jesus did. Read that book that you have always wanted to read. Embark on that course that you left half way. Sort out your relationship with that errant son that has dogged you all along. Forgive the husband who has been a pain in your life. Love the love of your life, whom you have treated like trash all these years. Present your body as a living sacrifice before your Maker and make a commitment to do what he tells you. And see what happens. The impact you are going to make is phenomenal. Your life will never be the same again. And many will enjoy the benefits long after you are gone.

I guess this means being aware of your purpose, plan for it and persist until the job is done. You remain focused, committed and dedicated to the task. And you can only do this for a limited duration of time. For many of us it ends at years 70 and for some a little bit longer.

“Our days may come to seventy years,

or eighty, if our strength endures;

yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,

for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

11 If only we knew the power of your anger!

Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.

12 Teach us to number our days,

that we may gain a heart of wisdom” ( Psalm 90:1-12 NIV)

However long, the important thing is to do it within your time. He does not increase the hours of the day. They remain 24 for everybody. It is how we use those hours that will determine whether we beat the clock of life.

This is why Jesus put it this way: “ Work while it is still day for the night is coming when you cannot work”. Day means during our active life when we are still breathing. Night is the end when the curtain comes down and tolls are silent and night beckons. Time to sleep until the morning when shadows fade away and we land on planet heaven. We can no longer mumble and stumble but silently the clock stops and we wake up to another life.

So, rise up! This is the time to accomplish your goals. To do that which God intended to accomplish through you. Jesus did, Paul did and many others. So, go for it. Start now. It’s a race against time! God’s time.