DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME AND PERFECT TIMING

Nerd Alert

We just experienced the falling back to standard time. Daylight Savings Time was first enacted by the city of Port Arthur, Canada, in 1908. Parts of Germany and Austria-Hungary started using the system in 1916 to save coal during wartime. America adopted the custom in 1918. People have been arguing about it ever since.

Personally, I just go with the flow. Each change brings a few days of getting used to, but I survive.

I bought this clock several years ago because I liked its shape. It worked for a while. I put new works on it when it quit, and it still didn’t work. It has been stuck in the same position for years. I don’t use it to help keep time. The clock doesn’t care what time system we are on. It just sits there, showing the same time day after day.

I should try again to fix it. But it doesn’t bother me this way, and it is a fun suggestion – even I can be right occasionally!

Which brings me to my Preaching Alert.

There are a ba-jillion verses in the Bible about time. In Psalms, David says he trusts in God, and his times are in God’s hands. He asks for a heart of wisdom to number his days. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 lists all sorts of times and corresponding activities. Paul exhorts us to redeem the time. Mordecai suggested to Esther that she was perhaps born at a certain time and placed in a specific position in order to save the Jews.

But this is one of the best verses about time. I quote the Living Bible Translation. “When we were utterly helpless, with no way of escape, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners.”

In our lives, in world events, and for eternity, God always has perfect timing!

Blessings

KB