August 24, 2008

A week goes by. Then another. Then it's a month. Time flies. I've noticed it more this year than any other but I think I felt that way last year. I'm not sure how I feel about that. A year goes by then a decade. I don't have an awful lot of decades to spare.

Life goes by under our noses sometimes and we look up and weeks have flown by. We plod along from day to day, high point to high point without really fully understanding how we got from one to the other. I've come to understand that sometimes this is just how things are. It's not a good thing or a bad thing. We're in the hands of God. Consistent intimacy with Jesus is the important thing not time management. In the end the relationship we've forged with Christ is all we'll be left with.

My friend Marcia is a radio personality here in Nashville but being an extraordinary vocalist she's often on tour with some big name entertainer. She listens to the Daily Audio Bible every day and has been a part of this community for a long time now. I was talking to her a few months ago and she said, "The one thing that is most compelling about the Daily Audio Bible to me is that it's always there. You show up every day. I can count on it."

I diffuse those kinds of comments. I have a hard time accepting a compliment for doing what all believers should do by default. But I think I'll take it back. I guess I can have this compliment for my very own but I have to be honest. I show up because you do. You show up because I do. We're in this together and days go by then weeks and months. Every day we take a hike together through an enchanted sliver of Scripture and weeks go by then months but beautifully when we do finally look up and around us we have gone somewhere rather than remaining stagnant. We look in the mirror of our lives and see a fit and muscular spirit. Those pounds we'd been carrying around are gone. We think back over the months and realize that God has been transforming us, changing us, sanctifying us and changing us into His likeness.

So I guess I'm cool with time flying. If I can walk with God time is drawing me closer to Him both in this world and on to the next. I'm stronger today than I was yesterday. I am more faithful this month than last. I don't even recognize mental pictures of myself from a few years ago so this must be what transformation looks and feels like. You know what they (whoever they are) say......time flies when you're having fun.

Onward Comrades,

Brian