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Children’s Sermon, January 1, 2006
Riddle: What seems to melt away, sometimes is not enough for some folks and too much for others, and sometimes goes too fast for some people and too slowly for others?
Snow and time.
What are some ways we measure time?
Watch
When school is out
When mom or dad come home for work
When we get hungry for lunch or supper
Clock
Hourglass
Egg timer
Stop watch
Sundial
Daylight
Calendars: Wall calendars, Desk calendars, Pocket calendars
We seem to be very conscious about measuring time, don’t we?
It’s almost if we don’t keep track of it, we feel like we’re losing control of it.
But we can’t, because time is not in our hands.
Who controls time?
God
We are not in control of our time.
We are not in control of our lives.
God is.
But there is something we can control: our attitudes.
When we think time is going too slowly or if we think time is passing too quickly, the difference is in our attitude.
And we have a choice about that.
We can choose how we /feel/ about something – that’s our attitude.
We can choose to be happy or sad.
We can choose to be angry for forgiving.
We can choose to hate or to love.
God gives us that power – the freedom of choice.
How we experience our time, whether it goes quickly or slowly, is largely our choice of attitude.
Our time is in God’s hands.
Our lives are in God’s hands.
But our attitudes are up to us.
Sometimes it is hard not to be sad or angry or unhappy.
Sometimes it seems like nothing is going right.
But when we have times like that in our lives, it is especially important to remember who REALLY is in charge and to remember that God is with us absolutely every moment of our lives.
For God, “there is a time for everything under heaven.”
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