Guest Blogger: Greg Jackson, Media Director

Most of us have committed our lives to Christ, but how many of us commit our days, hours, an minutes to Him?

Time is a funny thing. The past ceases to exist as soon as it happens. All we are left with is the evidence that it did. Somebody built this table, I remember the third grade, etc. The future is even less tangible, existing only in our expectation.

Our perception of the past and future is pretty skewed. The further we get away from our current place in time, the less accurate our expectations become. For example, I can say with a pretty good degree of certainty what will happen in 5 minutes. I have less certainty about the next 5 hours, even less about the next 5 days, less than that about the next 5 months, and almost none about the next 5 years.

Likewise, our memories become more inaccurate the further back we try to remember. Our minds manufacture details to fill in the blanks based on our combined experience, and more often than not, we forget things altogether.

You ever catch yourself saying at one point that time feels like it’s going by too fast, and at another point in time that it feels like it’s crawling? Our circumstances are actually shaping the way we perceive time!

We go through life building toward some unforeseen goal. We could be looking for peace or security or a greater level of spiritual depth. All the while, we have a thought in the back of our minds that gnaws at us daily, the thought that we wish we could change the past.

I guess what I’m getting at is the fact that we sacrifice the present on the altars of the past and future, ironically creating a situation whereby our future self will regret not having made the most of life when we had the chance.

What will you do to serve God in the next 60 seconds? You may not have that long…

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