I will try to be less earthy and more heavenly in my attitudes. Worldliness is being earthbound, a substitution of the heavenly for the here and now. Earthiness is expressed in many ways, such as time, place, property, money, and pleasure. I cannot free myself physically from these restraints, but I must do so spiritually. The Bible tells me I must live in the heavenlies, where Christ now is “seated at the right hand of God” (Colossians 3:1). This means a substitution of heaven’s ways for earth’s ways.
Concerning time, I must be heavenly minded, not earthly minded. My daily life involves the clock; and the more I bind myself to it, the less I follow the heavenly schedule. The only clock Jesus paid any attention to was the clock of His Father’s will (John 9:4). This must be my clock. If I am rigid with a schedule, fussy about being late, worried because I have wasted time, anxious for a certain moment to arrive, distressed because I have missed my plane, I am not yielding to my Father’s timetable. I must press on to the place where “time shall be no more.” If I am occupied with time, it means something is amiss in my spirit. The person who is absolutely at peace pays no attention to time.
Jesus said, “My time is not yet come: but your time is always ready” (John 7:6, KJV). Jesus had no schedule; He just did His Father’s will as it was impressed upon Him; but His friends were schedule-bound. I am constantly faced with an alternative: shall I obey God or the clock? To do the latter is to be locked into earthiness, a quality Jesus never manifested. Idleness is not a matter here, for God’s will never means idleness. When I deeply abide in Jesus, time will cease to be, just as really as If I were already in heaven.
“So teach us to number our days, that we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12)
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