So you’re welcome to 2017; you know the proof of a promising
better future is the gift of breath, when there is life, there is hope; thus, I
can assure you that 2017 promises to be awesome! But note the word “Promises” though,
’cos often always, but for miracles, you have to give an effort. And you know a
well-tailored effort comes with proper planning; thus, let me be quick to ask
if you’ve planned for 2017 or you’re still planning, or probably, you’re
planning to plan. Your response
summarily explains how you’ve chosen, passively or actively, to start your new
year! Remember, your experience doesn’t change till your approach changes!
Growing up, my Dad
would often remind us to live and prepare as if we’ll die tomorrow but plan as
if we’ll never die. Teach us to number
our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12 NIV). “Our days”
are not limited to those lived, but also to those to be lived: if we’ve not
learned to detail time, we’ve not learned to value life.
I
define Time as the unit of measurement of all things; nothing is independent of
time: Not only does time measure our activities, but also our inactivity. i.e.
if you’re asked of what you were doing between 10pm and 3am, you probably tell
them you were sleeping. Stephen King, in
The Green Mile, said, “Time takes it all,
whether you want it or not.”
Sometime ago, a
friend was seeking opinions on whether God can change the past, since He can do
all things. Sure Yeah, He can, but I
believe, more often than not, if need be, that He rather makes the past
worthless, using this Principle of stopping and starting Time. Often times He causes
a change by bringing a halt to the present time, thus ending an era, before
starting another; if this principle of time doesn’t exist, Christ’s coming
wouldn’t have made any difference either; His Coming would have been just a
part of the log.
“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once!”
- Ray Cummings, the Girl of the Golden Atom
And this principle is
available for us in forms of Will Power and focused decisions, with the ability
to stop an event in our lives and start another; ability to influence our own
experiences! Most times, we don’t need those special break-outs we seek before
we can influence the changes we desire! Constantly manifesting our ability to
say Yes or No, you can’t imagine how much we will change in our lives!
5 things Time helps to
achieve with this principle:
1. It gives the opportunity
to build history
2. It helps to build and
stop eras
3. It gives hope for a
possible better future
4. It gives an opportunity
for a restart
5. Time limits time
Time helps us to
differentiate the Past from the present, and both from the future! Myles Munroe once said, "Thank God for Time; it puts an end to
an era". But for time, we will be forever captured in our regret; with
the existence of Time, we will always have that hope of a new and better future,
and a hope to forget an unfavorable time. If you need a change, it’s a
New Year and the Time just changed, you might as well change with this time!
Have a Grace-filled
2017!
-
’Boluwaji Lasehinde
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