Short as the watch that ends the night before the rising
sun.
--Isaac Watts, 1719
Time is such a strange concept. Each day has twenty-four hours
in it; some seem to fly by and we leave things undone, while others crawl,
second by second. And I’ve known people that I would wager had more hours in
the day than I do --- they fit so much
more in! And does time take forever
when we are waiting on something? Daylight saving time? Don’t get me
started! It’s been a week, and I’m still mad about the hour that disappeared into thin air
from my overnight last Saturday
night!
This is not a new puzzle; the Israelites were always
wondering when God would act, and tiring of waiting for things to happen. In
this 300-year-old text, Isaac Watts reminds us that our time and God’s time are
different. We may find it easier to wait when we remember that God’s reality
runs on a different clock than ours.
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