Do you remember sitting in your classroom at school with those utterances from your stomach saying "feed me", and it done so without shame, right when the class went into a state of utter silence, which was in and of itself a divine miracle sent to the teacher. This puts me back into the 5th grade classroom of Mr. Lonnie Cole at the old, now padlocked, Lost Creek Elementary on Sixteen Mile Creek in Dice, KY. That was in 1989, I was ten. Now, I'm sitting as a Retail Sales Manager with a phenomenal company, an Asst. Pastor in an amazing Church, a husband of 10 years, we're sitting on verge of another year being fulfilled, and I'm 31. I call this, surreal.
I sometimes look back and wonder what I could have done differently, just in the last decade. Should some friendships had been severed, should some been cultivated? What about all of those souls that I have become acquainted with that I failed to reach for Jesus? What about the opportunities that I failed to pursue and what about the ones I chose to pursue? I've said plenty of things and done plenty of things I wish I had a reverse button for in this thing called life. But the amazing thing about all of that is this... "...being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." Titus 3:7 (KJV) So regardless of lost opportunities, the souls that I failed to reach or were pushed away from reaching, friendships that were never cultivated and the inability to have a reverse button on our lives; I can still somehow scratch my needful, imperfect self back to the throne of grace. What an amazing Savior!
But what is a decade? What's a year? It's 10 years, 1 year respectively, but it's a lifetime to others. But what is a decade to God? We would be in error if we connected God to time in His infinite state, He is the ultimate Authority of time, but He's never regulated or subject to time. Time meaning minutes, days, years etc. The Bible emphatically states that God, again being the creator of all things, transcends time. (Genesis 1) So for us, a decade, plus 1, is coming to a close. But to God, well, He's still God and He's not a God of 11 years, 100 years or even 1 million, He's infinte! Another 10 years of life on earth that may have been seasoned with many hard times and many good times. From my marriage to my best and closest earthly friend at the beginning of this block of time, to this final, last day of 2010, we can say that another decade, plus 1, is certainly in the books, at least it is for here..."Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Rev. 22:20 (KJV)
