This coming Sunday morning early--2:00AM to be exact--we are to move our clocks forward one hour.  I will do mine earlier than 2:00AM, for I will be asleep then--hopefully.  Moving the time or changing the time is something which has been taking place in this country for a long time.  Back in the sixties and seventies, when the current movement to change the time both in the spring and fall became strong, some reasons were given for doing this.  One of them had to do with energy usage or saving.  If the days are longer in spring through fall, then we should somehow be able to take advantage of this.  Moving the clocks ahead one hour was a solution.  Moving them back in the fall was another.  Somehow we were supposed to save energy or use less energy that way.  Perhaps we have done so.

I was pastor of a rural church back then.  The people in our church, who worked in agriculture every day, didn't understand all the fuss.  They said that the sun would come up when it came up and go down when it went down.  They would still plant and harvest their crops at the same time.  And they did.  You know, we really cannot change time.  It is a constant.  We can change our measurement of it, I suppose, but nothing much will change.  Instead of changing the time, we probably should be thinking about changing how we use our time.  You know, we should work more efficiently, start earlier in order to complete our tasks, and make better use of our time.  Some of us waste a lot of time.  We probably should consider doing a better job of using the twenty-four hours which we have each  day.

This would be my suggestion this week:  As we make sure that we get our clocks adjusted correctly this weekend, let's give some consideration to using and managing better the time which we have every day.  As followers of the Lord, we are stewards of all that we have been given--including time.  Pray that the Lord will help you to be come a better steward of your time.