
{"id":540,"date":"2021-09-16T23:31:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/?p=540"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:31:26","slug":"time-is-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Time Is Short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During time of prayer and fellowship\nwith God there was this nearly constant impression that &#8220;time is\nshort&#8221;. When God speaks His words are few. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Light, be.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Fear not.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;I am.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For a while the thought that &#8220;time is short&#8221; brought forth &#8220;end of days&#8221; meanings such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Third World War,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American democracy \/ this country will fall,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will pass on soon from this world,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time&#8217;s up<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jesus returns, \u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It never occurred to me that I wasn&#8217;t hearing God correctly, that there is a different message about time. An unexpected one. I was hearing &#8220;time is short&#8221;, &#8220;time&#8217;s up&#8221;, but that&#8217;s not what God was saying to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is eternal. He is Lord of Time. The Almighty Time Lord. (Doctor Who?) Seriously all time belongs to God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I now very clearly hear what God was saying: &#8220;Time is Mine&#8221; sayeth the Lord. He is with me every nanosecond of every day. He knows the hour of my &#8220;time&#8221;. He loves me and will never forsake me. &#8220;Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now every time I hear God mention &#8220;time&#8221; I feel loved, I know that He has been watching over me every second. I feel peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This caused me to consider the time that I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So long as I&#8217;m still alive I live in the time God allowed for me. That is, I&#8217;m not yet in God&#8217;s eternal home. <strong>So I can&#8217;t give up or give in no matter what the conflict, no matter the pain, <em>no matter what.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we have 1 more minute then so be it. Time\nalways has been short; every minute counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The end result is that I&#8217;ve been reinvigorated to <em>use<\/em> time, <em>making the most<\/em> of every minute, redeeming the time. <strong>So in spite of pain, in spite of breathing difficulties, fatigue, and weakness, I won&#8217;t let time, or the lack of it to be an enemy anymore. <\/strong>Each minute is a blessing for each of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can use that minute of blessing to praise God, to bless others, to be kind, generous, and loving towards one another. There&#8217;s so much we can do in the next minute. There&#8217;s still time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love In Christ,<br \/>\nEd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During time of prayer and fellowship with God there was this nearly constant impression that &#8220;time is short&#8221;. When God speaks His words are few. For a while the thought that &#8220;time is short&#8221; brought forth &#8220;end of days&#8221; meanings such as: It never occurred to me that I wasn&#8217;t&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-short-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}