Jan 2024. Blues Vol 40 No. 1

amid the shifting desert sands
and marvels at the inscription,
“Look on my works, ye Mighty,
and despair!”
Deists like our own Thomas
Jefferson believe a divine
power concocted the universe.
They liken that godly power to a
clockmaker. Deism’s god created
the universe and then started the
great clock as a disinterested
party never more to take part in
creation. Jefferson cut out any
references to miraculous events
from his copy of the New Testament.
He thought Jesus of Nazareth
was a moral philosopher
and teacher, but nothing more.
Christians, on the other
hand, praise God, not only for
the indescribable gift of time,
but for our brain’s capacity to
sense the passing of time. We
are God’s only creatures who
know that we exist and know
we will pass away. Technically,
the definitions of these attributes
are self-awareness and
death-awareness. Time is our
gift. In the New Testament (not
Jefferson’s) Jesus Christ is the
Alpha and Omega. He started
time and He will end it in His
own way.
We stand on the banks of
time’s great river and consider
our places. Rather than trying to
outfox time, we should treasure
it and spend it wisely with the
people who mean the most to
us. Like time itself, they are inestimable
gifts of a loving Creator
who takes an active interest in
everything we do.
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