by this time there will be

At breakfast this morning, and as I repeatedly looked at my watch, it occurred to me that one of the great failings of believers is their concept of time as it relates to God. We are, all of us, quite often punch-clock Christians. We bind God into increments of our schedule.

The worst offenders limit Him only to times of need and high holidays -- the nominals. A step above this are the one-morning Christians, the ones who attend church every Sunday, but don't speak to Him outside of that hour-and-a-half timeslot. Above that are the palm pilot Christians. They're the ones who have Sunday morning carved out; thirty seconds before each meal carved out; perhaps even ten minutes a morning to either pray or read the Word. But when the time is short or the reading is long, aren't they also cutting it short, keeping God in His scheduled slot?

The walk of faith is the struggle to allow Him to extend His concept of time -- eternity -- to our schedules. It is Him taking up the time in our schedules that He has paid for with His blood -- which is all of it -- and inhabiting every second. It is Him removing the watch from our wrist and saying He'll keep track of time for us, just sit back, relax, it's all relative anyway.