Final Week Of The First Month

One month of the New Year has almost run its course, as we are in its final week. Many voices are screaming with dissatisfaction, saying, O how time has flown! Other voices are shouting with displeasure, where has the time gone? People are bemoaning, I have not done half of what I had planned to do. Still other voices are celebrating the fleeing time, most happy that time has flown and continues to swiftly fly by, because they are waiting on some excitement to occur, like a wedding day, or a long planned for and anxiously awaiting holiday. The list of temperaments and attitudes can go on and on, albeit, we must acknowledge those who are most accommodating and philosophically so. These are the resigned, if you will, whose voices keep one metronomic beat, which say that they can do nothing about time, so why bother about it. 

Be that as it may, I dare say that there are perhaps some of us, believers, who fit into that list to some degree and measure. However you are accepting this final week of 2026, whatever your attitude towards this final Lord’s Day Sunday, in an almost one month old new Year, will you join me in being reminded that the God we love, worship and serve, the God who is Creator of all, the One Sovereign, the God who holds all time in His Hands, has brought each of us, to this hour? Regardless of how we come to this time, with grudging or thankful hearts; with warped or wise minds; with morose or excited attitude; or with anxious or contented lives, God is in control. Nothing of our thinking, speaking, doing or feeling, can change who our God is, in time and eternity.

Together, let each one who wills, by faith and unshaken trust and belief in God, hear again, with refreshed spiritual verve and vigour, God’s infallible Words on time.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as those that have none, those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away. 1 Corinthians 7: 29 - 31

Lord, please grant us the wisdom of time, whoever we are and wherever in life we are. Amen!

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5: 15 - 16

Lord, please teach us how to redeem the time, in this day of evil. Amen!

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. Colossians 4: 5 – 6.

Lord, please endue us with the knowledge and wisdom of timely speech, all seasoned and occasioned by faith in You. Amen!

During whatever time our Heavenly Father so grants this week, we shall continue to be grateful and thankful to Him, giving praise and honouring Him for who He is.