Reflections for the New Year (tick tock)

Reflections for the New Year (tick tock)

Somebody once told me that time is the distance traveled between two points, simplistic but profound!

Time is important to us because we do not have much of it compared to God who is eternal and who is adversely affected by the passing of time. We however, have the side effects of aging. Luckily for us God has granted us all eternal life, the presence of Jesus in you life as Lord will determine whether your eternity will rock or suck ... it's that simple! But you will live in eternity somewhere, the choice is up to you. (tick tock)

In our present age, there lies a whole industry that is trying to keep us young and wrinkle free and it turns over billions every year. There are creams and lotions, tonics and potions, fashions and fads, pills and diets, you name it is there.

Recently I read about some of big name celebs who are popping placenta pills and puffing on oxygen in order to stay young! All this array of "stuff" is to make us look and feel younger, to give us the perception that for us, time is standing still. Because we look young therefore we are young! Bzzzzt thank you for playing! (tick tock)

But time marches on and it seems that for some much of the 86,400 seconds of one day is spent trying to look younger for the 84,600 seconds of the next! But no matter what we do, our bodies continue to age, and we just have to get over it, we will age and show signs of age util such time as Jesus returns, then we see Him face to face, we will be change to be like Him. (1 John 3:2)

And so the New Year approaches and we have been duly warned the coming year could be a doozy! 

Already we are looking at possible world wide financial disaster courtesy of US politicians whose failure to reach agreement by December 31 may put the US back into recession. Which will have world wide effects.

There is the ongoing gun debate in the US, this will get nasty as the NRA positions itself to take on all who stand in its way.

The Chinese economy is showing signs of growth which is good for Australia's mining industry and the Government's mining tax.

North Korea has a missile and Iran may yet have a bomb, and the war in Afghanistan just seems to roll on.

So what are you going to do in 2013? Get fit? Lose weight? Be a nicer person? Or is it time to put aside any obsession we have of trying not to age, and to pray and change the world instead of bodies? (tick tock)