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It's hard to believe another year has come and gone, and the age-old saying, "Time flies" can be a daunting reality. Where does it go? People have pondered the question of time for centuries. Einstein said, “The only reason for time, is that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Oddly, while time is free, it can never be owned. Time can be used, but once lost, never gotten back, so perhaps the idea is not to count every hour of every day, but to make every hour within each day count. Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow—a promissory note, but today is the only real cash we have, so we should spend it wisely! William Shakespeare wisely said, “Time is the justice that examines all offenders.” Benjamin Franklin felt, “Lost time is never found again.” I suppose his motto would have been, “It’s now or never!” He further said, “Doest thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.” The famous author C.S. Lewis believed, “Time hasn't stopped for any troubles, heartaches, or any other malfunctions of this world, so please don't tell me it will stop for you.” Look at the myriad of things people have said about or related to time:

• It’s now or never.
• If I could put time in a bottle.
• There’s no time like the present.
• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
• Time is the mother and murderer of all things.
• To everything there is a season.
• This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the beginning of the end.
• Time is the most valuable thing one can spend.
• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
• The government tampers with God’s time.
• Time is an allusion. Lunchtime doubly so!
• Redeeming the time.
• Making the most of your time.
• In a time crunch.
• Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.
• Motion must always have been in existence, and the same can be said for time itself, since it is not even possible for there to be an earlier and a later if time does not exist. Movement, then, is also continuous in the way in which time is - indeed time is either identical to movement or is some affection of it.
• See, if you can eternity in the hour that passes.
• Heathen: " Why did God create the cosmos at that and that arbitrary time?
Augustine:" But at that same moment He also created time."
~Augustine of Hippo, C. A.D. 400

As the pace of our lives has amplified, over-commitment and busyness have been elevated to socially desirable standards. Being busy is now considered chic and trendy. Our world has become speed oriented. We are inundated with living in a perpetual traffic rush and trying to beat the clock at every interval. In the midst of our automated environment people try and find a way to find more time, while ironically it seems everyone is running out of time.
Even though we have been given immeasurable resources in life, time is the one thing that God has not made renewable. In truth, if we squander our time, it is lost forever. So, in the midst of expanded workloads, time crunches, over scheduled, over committed increased life pressures, and a world that is productivity driven, we will have to set precedence in our lives to make every moment count. While time is not renewable, it is redeemable and we can make the most out of what we have been given.
So, this New Year, I make no new resolutions, but rather commit to using time more efficiently, and therefore redeem the time I have been given.
May you enjoy the New Year and spend your time wisely in 2007!