12th September 2021

Checking into God’s Presence... Don’t be puzzled that as much as we operate and depend on time in all things, there would not always be enough time lying around for everybody. It does not matter how well we chase time; time has always proven to be as fleeting as a stolen glance. When time is on time, it will show the sign of never enough and, some things will always be left undone. But there is a Man that operates outside the perimeters of time and that is God who has all the time at His disposal; He is free to do as He pleases because His name is God. However, in Proverbs 6:6-11, King Solomon drew a huge comparison using ants to show how we can encompass the limits that time placed in achieving greatness in life. The measures assuage the pressures which lack of time puts on our day to day encounter; encouraging us to: “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.” Proverbs 6:6-11 Instead of just using the time to pursue the mundane things of this world, we can develop ourselves even with stringent constraints which time had placed on us to advance our financial empowerment. A popular mantra states: “procrastination is a thief of time”; why then should we procrastinate what we can do today till tomorrow knowing fully well we must take cognizance of the limits which God puts on the existence of man in life?  King Solomon in Ecclesiastes 9:10-12 discusses the precarious nature of time in the real sense of life; saying: “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.”  God gave each of us an opening and closing stock at childbirth. In between the two, God apportions varying times for all to excel and make a significant input to the purpose of creation. We must be mindful of time as well as the limits set from childbirth: for those who were born will eventually die. However, that limit should generate enough determination that will lead us to greater wealth when we consider how helpless and hapless the life of an ant can be and the transformation on how well the ant has surpassed all limitations in making provision for themselves throughout all the seasons. I pray that as we operate within the time of the Lord, God will empower us to achieve everlasting joy, peace, and breakthrough that will lift us out of the poverty line; giving honour and glory to the Almighty God in Jesus' Mighty Name. Amen Http://testimony-times.blogspot.co.uk Just Checking into His Presence...