Greetings dear friends,
About six months before I got married, I started a
countdown calendar. It was a sheet of notebook paper with squares
representing the months with tinier squares representing the days. Every
day I would pull it out and make a nice black X over the
corresponding date noting there were 100 days left, 99 days left, 98 days left
etc…
One day I was in the middle of my linguistics class at
the local college when I pulled out my countdown calendar to mark the X. I
was not aware the professor was nearby, and he took great interest in my
calendar. I will never forget what he said, “Miss Alvarez, horas
volat - (time flies) - and before you know it, 25 years will have flown by
– forget about the four months until you are married. Let’s focus,
shall we?”
He was right, of course, and it’s actually been almost 30
years since that conversation. That’s why when we read “with glory
just around the corner” in the verse above we can take heart and hold onto hope. Glory
is closer than anyone of us realizes, and this is great news. Before
we know it all hardships will cease, and we will enjoy so much of what eludes
so many nowadays – peace, joy, happiness, tranquility, health, love, security…
I’m not saying we don’t have any of those things right now, but none of us has
all those things 100% of the time.
Horas volat: Soon "we will share in all that belongs
to Christ” (Hebrews 3:14).
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