Just A Second, Please

There are times I wish the Lord would give me just a bit more time. I need to change. I need to be a better person. I need renovation, but I keep so busy, and there just isn’t that much time for self-improvement.

Once every four years, we get a leap year, and God does give us one entire new day. And yet, it doesn’t seem that I make much use of that extra day. I keep on doing the same old things I’ve always done.

In June of 1992, we were told that we would be given an extra second. And all the world clocks had to move ahead just a little.

I suppose it doesn’t help much to wait for any more seconds or Leap Years to get started on my personal needs. It’s time I started now! “Now is the day of salvation”, the Bible says. Today is the day, I wished I had yesterday. What will I do with it? Do I keep saying, “Just a minute, God!”? Or can I speak up like the great Christians of old and say, “Here am I, Lord, send me.”

God has all the time in the world. He can wait. Indeed, He will wait, if we fail to come through. We may even destroy this old world God was good enough to give us. And if we do so, God will just try again. And eventually “the kingdoms of this world shall become the Kingdom of our God.” That’s the gospel truth. But when we say, “wait a second, Lord,” aren’t we just digging our own grave?

The Lord needs us now. He wants us today. Heaven waits with bated breath for my commitment and for yours. It’s hard for us to believe it, but Christ has no hands but ours. Christ is able to walk in love in this world, only through us. God with all His power and majesty, breathes His will into the world, but we must respond.