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What Time Is It?

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Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin Articles

A few years ago, there was a commercial which asked, “It’s 10 o’clock: do you know where your children are?” This commercial has always seemed to stick in my mind. I could not tell you what was being advertised in the commercial, but I can tell you that it has a real application in lives today. For many today, the time in their lives is 10 o’clock. Do we know where we are?

The lifespan of a person is around 74 years. I am sure that this fluctuates somewhat depending upon location or vocation, but this is the average age. Moses wrote about the brevity of life, “For it is soon cut off, and we fly away” (Psalm 90:10). The point is this: Man at best will not be here long, and truthfully is not guaranteed a moment. The clock may stop at any time. I can name friends who have passed from this life before they really had a chance to begin to live. Many of those, unfortunately, had not made preparation for the life after this one and will be lost, and so will we, if we lay not up treasures in heaven (Matthew 6:19-21).

Perhaps we think that we will live long enough to make things right. That is a great risk. The time to be saved is now for each one of us. Someone has made a mathematical parallel of the lifespan within a 24 hour day.

It is as follows; see what time it is in your life:

  • If you are 15 years…….it’s 8:51 a.m.
  • If you are 20 years…….it’s 11:08 a.m.
  • If you are 25 years…….it’s 12:25 a.m.
  • If you are 30 years…….it’s 1:25 a.m.
  • If you are 35 years…….it’s 2:59 a.m.
  • If you are 40 years…….it’s 4:16 a.m.
  • If you are 45 years…….it’s 5:43 a.m.
  • If you are 50 years…….it’s 6:50 a.m.
  • If you are 55 years…….it’s 8:08 a.m.
  • If you are 60 years…….it’s 10:00 a.m.
  • If you are 70+ years……it’s near Midnight

While we are not all 60-year-olds, I will repeat the earlier question. “It’s 10 o’clock; do you know where you are? How many people have wondered where the time went? James 4:14 KJV shows the brevity of life in certain terms, “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is a vapor, that appeared for little time, and then vanisheth away.”

It is my hope that you will make the most of today and look to God for salvation.

—Daniel F. Cates, via the Montana Street bulletin

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