I will no longer serve the clock but, rather, the timeless plan of God. To be continually wrapped up in time, always conscious of it, hoping or yearning for some future thing while dreaming joyously of some past thing, is frustration. I must be past as well as the future, and live in the present. I must do this because I now am my past, those experiences have already worked themselves into my life, so it is foolish to try to scrape out the honey that has already been eaten and become part of me.
I cannot dwell on the future, because I do not know what God has in store for me; so dwelling on it is fantasy, and fantasy is not reality. But the present is real, alive, active, important. To miss God’s purpose for me today is to cripple my future as well as to neutralize the beneficial lessons of the past.
To be confined to a time clock is to tell God when to work. Schedules have their place, but God operates independently of them. However, I must be sure I have God’s reason, not a fleshly one, for interrupting a time schedule.
The only schedule I must keep is a “day” schedule, even as one was kept by Jesus, who worked “the works of Him who sent [Him], as long as it [was] day” (John 9:4). I must remember that God does not publish His schedules (except rarely); therefore, I must live by faith. Faith says, “Lord, You have Your eye on my schedule and Your hand on me; You will bring us together.” Faith, when it is strong, already rejoices that this eventual meeting is an accomplished fact!
“But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8).
Daily with the King 