Click

Click, click, click, click... The sound rings out. As I look to my left to pin point the sound, I notice the red thin bar of the second hand clicking away turning clockwise. Click, click, click.... Starting to eat on my nerves. When all esle is silent but that sound it begins to grind on me like nails on a chalkboard.

I wonder if that's how Christ feels waiting for the moment to come when He is given the ok to storm the Earth's atmosphere and take us home so he can wage the final war. I'm an athlete and know how it feels first hand at the starting line anticipating the starting gun's shot ringing through the air, or for the whistle to blow so I can rund own the field and reik havock with violent clashes of bodies trying to send the ball carrier into another existance. This must be how Christ Jesus feels. Why wouldn't he anticipate the moment when He can take His kids home to be with him for eternity?

Another problem though exists.. He won't come yet! There is more to be done, but one things is true! Time is running out. The sand in the hour glass is begining to mound up at the bottom. The second hand is ticking away and getting louder every moment. So, what are we doing? Working, paying bills, fighting with our spouses and children, collecting accolaids and honors, gaining more stuff? What is it all worth?

Whats the point in gaining the world if souls are lost, or if we lose our own souls? The rest of the world has the concept that this is it. Life is to be enjoyed and taken advantage of. Gain as much stuff and money as well as power as possilbe "that's happiness." Bull Hockey!! I am reminded of, yes, another Smallville episode where lex has been shot. While he is in surgery for his life he is in another life created by choices. He has a child and Lana as his wife with another child on the way. Nearing the end of his "dream" he loses Lana during child birth. His mother fades in from the back ground and tells him he could have this. Lex of course in deep remourse and pain has no thoughts of a life good without her in it. He gives no thought to his son or new born baby girl. But instead is angry and defiant. When he wakes he stands at the window with decisions to make that will define the path of his future. Money and Power is what he wants now... His mother fades from behind once again with sadness on her face.

Eventually Lex goes down the path of darkness and loses his life in the midst of evil. Is this the life we are choosing? What if you and got a glimps of what we could have good and bad? Would it bare weight on our decisions? Sure it would! There is a reason why we don't know our future. Our choices create the path we go down.

So tick, tick, tick, tick goes the second hand on our lives and what we could be doing! Getting lost in the circumstances of life should not be an option but those circumstances clearly define who we are. So, why not take the moments God has given us and use them to reach out to make a difference. You and I can be world changers and it's all on us! "....be busy about the work of the kingdom."


Blessings,

Mike III AKA: Big Daddy