Ben Franklin may have said it best: “One today is worth two tomorrows. “That is because today is the only day we have. Yesterday is gone. We can’t call yesterday back to do what we failed to do. Nor can we reuse yesterday to undo what we may have messed up really bad or to repeat what we may have done well. All we have is today. Tomorrow is not here yet, and we aren’t even promised a tomorrow. So what are we going to do today? How will I spend its precious gift of time?
What is time, anyway? Clearly it isn’t a thing that you can touch, save up, or store. You can measure it and mark it off as it passes, but, as long as you keep your feet on mother earth, you can’t speed it up or stop it, because it just keeps marching on, second by second, Some describe it as being a dimension of the universe, a way to characterize things or events. Others prefer to think of time as an abstract, nothing more than an intellectual way to compare and sequence events. Of course, navigators and astronomers must measure time with extreme accuracy in order to practice their craft. For them, time flows steadily like the grains of sand through a tiny hole in an hourglass-or to be more precise, like the resonance frequency of atoms in ammonia or cesium 133, the element used by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as well as the U.S. Naval Observatory and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Most atomic clocks employ cesium 133, because its atoms oscillate at a constant frequency, All you need is a method of counting off exactly 9 billion, 192 million. 631 thousand, 770 oscillations (9,192,631,770) of this remarkable element, and there you have it. One second has passed and is now lost forever. As you can guess, we need a very fast counting device as each second ticks by.
As your time passes today, will you use it to build up or to tear down? Will you employ it to promote yourself and your cause or God and His kingdom? Each moment in time is a gift from God. The psalmist said: “This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Ps. 118:24, NKJV). And the Lord Himself declared: “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work” (John 9:4, NKJV).
Lord, my commitment is to follow Your example in doing the work of Your Father today. Let my every decision instantly turn toward You now. Keep my heart open to the Holy Spirit.