It take courage to listen with our whole heart to the tick of God’s timing rather than march to the loud beat of our fears.”- Ann Voskamp
“It [time] looks like a river of Nows. Unbounded. Broken free.”- C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 4 of The Broken Way by noting we all know every single day that we get one container of time. However, we don’t get to know the size of our container.
Therefore, Ann believes, “sometimes the best use of your time is to stand and listen to a clock.” As a result, even though you can’t measure the length of your life, you always can determine to make your life meaningful.
To multiply your life, Ms. Voskamp advises, change your outlook on time. Don’t think of time as something:
- to seize or capture
- captured or stolen from you
- to try to slow down before it steals away
- to wring the very most out of, drain to the last drop
In contrast, Ann describes Jesus’ concept of time:
” . . . all through Scripture, Jesus speaks of time as the highway by which we have come to die — so we can ultimately get to more abundant life. Time isn’t something you seize; it’s something you sacrifice. [Time’s] not something to grab; it’s something to give.”
Perhaps, Ann muses, when you break and give yourself away, time gets broken and multiplied and made into something more. Compared to Christ’s everlasting arms, the arms of time possess no strength to rob any of our hope or steal any of our joy.
Rather than kill time, use time to die to self and feel a resurrection.
Today’s question: What Scriptures enable you to listen to the tick of God’s timing? Please share.
Tomorrow’s blog: “Learning the art of living”
