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WE HAVE TIME AND ETERNITY
12-7-08
An author I was reading years ago used a phrase
that has stuck with me. It was "busy laziness."
You know how we are always being asked to do things we really don't want
to do and we say, "I just don't have time." That is "busy laziness."
We do have the time. All we have is time. We live in eternity as a soul
but we live in time as a body. Everything on this plane of existence is
related to time.
I remember the old scarecrow preachers in the churches of my childhood
talking about being "hurled out into eternity." Friends, eternity is not
something we are going to reach at death. We were "hurled into eternity"
when we were created as souls. Eternity is an ongoing process. We are in
eternity. Right now.
I remember seeing roadside concrete signs, "Where will you spend
eternity?" and "Jesus is coming soon." I always wondered, "If He is
coming soon, why put up a concrete sign? Cardboard should do."
We need a clear understanding of time in relation to eternity. Ever
since we were created as souls we have been in eternity. Who was I
before I was Dalton Roberts? Who were you a day before you were born? We
certainly existed because several verses tell us God knew us before the
foundation of the world. Our world was created 13 billion or so years
ago so maybe that's why I have so much arthritis (just kidding, Lord).
Once we entered the physical realm, we entered the zone of time. The
scriptures and all historical documents talk about years and days and
minutes because they were written for those of us who are now
experiencing the time phase of eternity.
So, I repeat, all we have is time in this realm. It is incorrect to say,
"I don't have time to do that." If you are alive and conscious, you have
time. So we should always answer honestly and the honest answers are "I
have other things with a higher priority for my time," or "I have other
ways I committed to spend my time," or "I don't want to."
The danger of saying, "I don't have time" is that it creates the
disabling habit of rationalization. It is a fancy, stylish excuse and it
makes us feel valuable that so many things are vying for our time. It
helps us avoid what we don't want to do and gives us a showbiz idea of
being very busy and important.
Time is the money we spend in the physical realm of existence but since
our spirituality is also currently practiced in the physical realm, time
is also money in the spiritual realm. If we do not seize the time we
need to evolve ourselves as spiritual beings, we are impoverishing
ourselves by not investing our money (time) in the development of our
souls.
At times it is a challenge to devote time to my journal. A day can seem
to just swoop you up and run yon to and fro until you are ready to drop
when you get home. When I see I am going to have a day like that, I get
up a little early and write in my journal in the morning. Nothing has
meant more in my spiritual practice than journaling and I do have time
for it because it is worth the time I invest in it.
I not only write some thoughts every day, I summarize the day's
activities because seeing how those activities paid off or didn't pay
off gives great perspective. Perspective is the main thing that helps us
determine where to spend our time.
We are powerful beings. We can actually make time. We can grab a portion
of a day in this period of eternity and make time for whatever we wish.
We do have time all the time as we continue to experience eternity.
~~~
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