Monday Morning Manna: Redeeming the Time Change

Yesterday was Time Change Sunday. As a Seminary student, I was Pastor of a small church in East Texas in 1966 when the Unified Time Act was implemented. The church’s two deacons decided to not observe the time change. “The Guv-ment has no business messin’ with God’s time,” they exclaimed. The quote did not come from one of my two deacons, but it could have – “Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.” The deacons eventually gave in, but they were right about one thing. It was God’s time. God created time as we know it (Genesis 1:14), sent Jesus in the ‘fullness of time” (Galatians 4:4-5), will someday call time (Revelation 10:5-6), but in the meantime, wants us to “redeem the time” (Ephesians 5:15-16). Redemption is what happens when you trade in something of value for something of greater value. Our spiritual assignment is to trade in what we do with our time for a greater use of our time. So now that we have lost an hour, let us make the most of the time remaining.

Dr. Dan Crawford, Senior Professor at Southwestern Baptist Seminary, is the WestCoast Baptist Association’s Spiritual Life & Leadership Mentor. Follow Dan on Twitter @DrDanRC and Facebook www.facebook.com/dan.crawford

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