Happy “Fall Back” Sunday!
We should all be fully refreshed and rested for worship today since we all took advantage of our “extra hour” last night! Right!!??
Many people aren’t big fans of the “time change” system that is still being used in our country, but I definitely prefer what we encounter in the Fall over what we have in the Spring.
And, from a worship service standpoint, I especially prefer the “Fall Back.” You may not regularly discipline yourself to be present in time for Bible Class, but if you forgot to change your clock last night, you may have made it to class this week! What a good motivation to make Bible Class a regular part of your Sunday!
In 1989 Cher released an album with a song, “If I Could Turn Back Time.” The main stanza of the song said, “If I could turn back time, If I could find a way, I’d take back those words that have hurt you, And you’d stay.”
What would you do differently if you could “Turn Back Time?”
I doubt that our “Fall Back” of one hour afforded you the opportunity to seriously right any wrong in your life, but perhaps it allowed you to catch up on missed sleep or something.
We cannot undo what has been done! We can’t turn back time and take a “do over” that will completely erase our wrong choices. We can’t remove every consequence of past decisions. However, we can be forgiven of our past – at least in God’s sight – and we can move forward in right decisions, seeking to honor God and build up where we have previously torn down.
Philippians 3: 13-14 … but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. .
-J. Helbig
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