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“It is time for thee, Lord, to work; for they have made void thy laws”
Introduction!
One of the amazing things about the day in which we live is that we have the most elaborate time keeping devices any generation ever had, we wear sophisticated watches, and we have clocks everywhere.
We can lift the phone and find the correct time from a speaking clock.
We turn on our computer and the little clock in the corner keeps us right, we keep current with events all over the world whatever time it is in those countries through television.
Some of us have the dinner on before we left home this morning and we can’t even wait for the Lord’s table lest we would lose it.
If the preacher goes a little over the time we have to get up and walk out because we must attend that other meeting.
We are a generation absolutely ruled by time!
And yet dear folks, there never has been a generation as in the dark about one little question! What time is it?
I have an old book, it was placed in my hands by my mother and father when I was just sixteen. They told me then it was God’s timepiece, God’s light and it would keep me on time and keep me in light. Friends this old timepiece has been ticking for centuries.
Sometimes it may seem slow, but it never has once been late. It is a clock set by almighty God, heaven and earth may pass away, but it will not.
And bless God it runs on standard time, and woe to those who would try to set it back or push it forward!
You will find if you look into this timepiece you will have the experience the electrician has when he rewires an old house where the power has not been switched off, you will get a shock, for this book has its own alarm call and may God have mercy on the man or woman who sleeps through its warning or presses the snooze button.
One thing is certain, it’s later than we think and God knows, if we don’t, “it is high time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy laws”
Dr.Vance Havner says, “civilisation today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum!”
1. The Daring of the Psalmist Prayer! v 126.
”It is time for thee, Lord, to work.”
Now beloved the only person who can pray like that is someone living close enough to God to understand his mind and will.
Such a person can appeal to God on the basis of an intimate knowledge of his will!
Daniel could do that. He had so thoroughly mastered the Word of God as given to Jeremiah, he had so marked the passing of the years, he was so conversant with the signs of the times that he could pray, “It is time, O Lord, for thee to work”
We need a few daring people who know God as Daniel did to begin to pray!
There’s not much daring about our Christianity today, my own included!
I mean we have few men and woman like Lindbergh these days.
When he was just a youngster he climbed into an old crate of a air-plane with no radio, no anything and took off for Paris, he had to have a lot of something that most of us do not have!
But after it was over, and of course he had the world at his feet, he was an idol everywhere. Everybody was so excited about this great act of daring.
But Lindbergh soon grew tired of all the adulation and fame.
Then tragedy struck and his little boy was kidnapped and murdered, he moved to England to live and began to get friendly with some supporters of the Nazis.
Franklin D. Roosevelt called him a traitor, but later president Eisenhower promoted him, and he served in World War 2 in an advisory capacity!
He then became interested in conservation and later discovered he had a terminal illness, and in his characteristic fashion, he planned his own funeral.
They buried him in a fatigue outfit in a very plain grave in Hawaii, where he lived.
On his tombstone are the words “Though I mount up with the wings of the morning.”
But Lindbergh said this,” I have lived to see the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilisation I expected them to serve”
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