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By Dean Kelly

This Sunday, March 9 at 2:00 AM the time changes. This is the Sunday when we need to remind everyone to change their clocks forward one hour. If we don’t change our clocks, we  will be late to church services. What was 11:00 (when our AM Worship Service starts) would now be 12:00 and you will have totally missed services if your clock is wrong. 

But do we actually change time? The answer is “no”. We only change how we are using the time that already exists. Sunday March 9, 2025 will have 24 hours, 1440 minutes, and 86,400 seconds, just like Friday, March 7, 2025 will have, and every day that follows until the Lord comes again.

God made this promise to Noah: “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, and day and night Shall not cease.” 

Time is not in the hands of humans. Time is not controlled by the votes of politicians. Time is held within the hand of God. Eventually, for every person, time will fade into eternity, the present will lose itself in forever more. 

The New Testament often speaks of “redeeming the time”. Ephesians 5:15-16 states, “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”  Again, Colossians 4:5 reads, “Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.”  One Bible dictionary defines the term “redeem” in the phrase “redeeming the time” in this way, “The word generally means to buy up, to buy all that is anywhere to be bought, and not to allow the suitable moment to pass by unheeded but to make it one’s own” (CWSB Dictionary). 

We can move it around and view differently if we wish, but ultimately, God is in control of time. We are the subjects of time; we do not control it.

We can be ready for that moment that time ends for us, because God has prepared us for that translation by sending Jesus to the cross. Let us wisely use time, and meet Him at the cross.

 

Dean Kelly is minister at Highland Home Church of Christ.