Daylight Savings is a Hoax

As cool weather rolls in and the days seem shorter it reminds me that we are quickly approaching the day on our calendar called “Daylight Savings Time”. This is a day we adjust our clocks and “fall back” to save an hour of daylight. This has always stuck me as odd. I know the history behind it and why we do it. I worked on a ranch in Montana as a teenagers and I remember Maurice Crabtree telling me, “The government is not going to tell me what time it is. We get up when the sun comes up and we work until it goes down, then we rest”. What strikes me as odd about this day is that we think we can control daylight, or control time.

Time is the one thing we cannot control. The fact is, each day is 24 hours, the sun comes up and the sun goes down. It is beyond our control. We humans have nothing to do with it. We can’t stop it, can’t change it, can’t control it. All we can do it change our measuring devices (clocks) to suit our needs and appear like we have done something to control time.

God is outside of time. He existed before it, He created it, and He is the one and only who controls it. Throughout the Bible there are many references to time. In the Old Testament, God preformed a miracle and held the sun in the sky during a battle. In the New Testament, Jesus, God incarnate here on earth, said, “Who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?” No matter how much we worry, fret, are anxious, we cannot add to the 24 hours a day given to us.

The 2^nd letter that Peter wrote, he did so from jail where he was about to be executed and he knew this was his last letter to his beloved brothers and sisters. There were some “mockers” who were going around saying that Jesus had not come back yet, as promised, so it must not be true. They were mocking, and questioning, why was it taking so long? Look around at all the evil, if there was a God, He would stop all this? And many of the questions and thoughts we have today.

Peter refutes them by saying, “Don’t let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.” Peter was reminding them of the fact that God is not bound by time, He is outside of time. God does not see our human devices of how to measure our days, He is the one in control of the day. Peter goes on to say, “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you (emphasis added), not wishing any to perish, but for all to come to repentance”. This echoes the Old Testament prophet Ezekial, who was told to, “Say to them, ‘As I live!’ declares the Lord God, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from their ways and live”. Peter reminds us one more time “Remember, our Lord’s patience gives people time (emphasis added) to be saved.

People, God is waiting, God is being patient, God will fulfill His promise, but He is waiting….for you.

You may have already believed and been adopted into His family. Then maybe He is waiting on you to share this gift with your neighbor, share this gift with this community, share His same attitude that He doesn’t want anyone to be separated from Him when time ends.

If you have not believed in God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the gift He is offering, why not today?

You have been given today, what will you do with it? I urge you to read 2 Peter, chapter 3. I urge you to remember the letter to the Ephesians where it says, “God decided in advance (before time) to adopt us into His family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. This is what He wanted to do and it gave Him great pleasure”

God wants to have a relationship with you. God wants you to be in His family. So much so, that He sent His only Son to die in your place so that your relationship with God would be restored and reconciled. He is patient, He has given us another day, and He is waiting for YOU!