There Is Still Time 

   “There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change.  Have you slipped?  Rise up.  Have you sinned?  Cease.  Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.” (St. Basil the Great) 

   Our God is patient, He allows us time to reconsider our lives and make changes.  Until we draw our last breath there is still time to turn to Him in sorrow for our sins and save our souls.

   However, we are procrastinators, we tend to put things off.  We often wait until something easily resolved becomes an emergency before acting.  If we do the same with our immortal soul, we may wait too late.  There is a limit to the time we have on this earth.  Once our mortal life is over, we no longer have the option of turning to God; our destiny is decided.

   Our mortality has a habit of sneaking up on us.  A car wreck, a serious injury or illness can end this life in a moment, leaving no time to rethink the decisions we’ve made or to seek forgiveness for the sins we’ve committed.  Now is the time to act, now is the time to seek God’s forgiveness.

   “If we say, ‘We are without sin,’ we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John: 18).  Each day we sin in some way, in ways we may not even be conscious of.  Each evening, and even throughout the day, it’s good to take a minute to thank the Lord for His blessings and to express our sorrow for those sins, even the ones we may not be aware of.

   There is still time, time to confess and be forgiven, time to change and live for God rather than self, time to write our name in the book of life.  But life is short, don’t waste what time we have. 

You are a loving and compassionate God.

You are patient with Your children.

You give us time turn to You.

Let us not waste the time You give us. 

Amen