Each Moment He Gives You Is The Best God Can Do

God created time out of nothing. Before He created everything and everyone, there was no time. After the end of the world, there will be no more time.

You are His – “We were bought with a price and now belong to Him” (1 Corinthians 7:23) –  and all your time is His, each moment a gift from Him to you.

How good are these moments?  This “good” is divine good that can be understood in terms of God’s perfection, faithfulness and love. To say a moment is “best” for you is to say that, as much as is divinely possible without rendering you a mindless robot, God wills that each moment is a moment in which  you can act in accord with His will, His plan for you.

God Perfect

From the divine point of view, each moment of time is perfect, perfect for the person who has received the gift. He would and can do nothing else.

He is the Rock, his works are perfect . . .  (Deuteronomy 32:4).

Can you penetrate the designs of God? Dare you vie with the perfection of the Almighty? (Job 11:7).

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5:48)

The Prologue of The Catechism of the Catholic Church begins with the perfection of God and how this permeates our time here:

1. THE LIFE OF MAN—TO KNOW AND LOVE GOD

1 God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man.

Each of your moments of time is a divine moment. These moments are not haphazard afterthoughts, unplanned accidents, or random one-off never-mind events.  In saying how “good” these moments are, they have to be understood as part of His plan for you, a plan that cannot be improved on. Each such moment includes where you are, who you are with, what is happening around you, what you may be going through at the time, what has gone before in your life, what you have to do and are looking forward to, what you have done, and what God is telling you is right and wrong.

God Love

Not only is each moment He gives you perfect for you, His chosen child, it is also a gift from God your loving Father who loves you with a divine love:

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. (1 John 4:16-18).

He made you and, unlike every cow and lizard, He made you like Him. Even more, He made you His child. Because of this, He wants you home with Him when time is done for you – to be, as C.S. Lewis says, an “everlasting splendor.” Each moment of a person’s time presents the opportunity to be with Him where He is – outside time. You get to decide, and then freely act in your time on earth, so that you will be an everlasting splendor with Him.

God Faithful

God keeps His word. “God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”   (1 Corinthians 1:9). His faithfulness remains, always, despite our unfaithfulness (2 Timothy 2:13). The perfect faithfulness of God means that He remains the same regardless of circumstances or human behavior. If He said it, He will do it:

Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save. Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last, and from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done: Who call a bird from the east, and from a far country the man of my own will, and I have spoken, and will bring it to pass: I have created, and I will do it. Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who are far from justice. (Isaiah 46:4,9–11).

God will not ever act so that you no longer exist. He gives you all the moments of your life on earth and all of eternity with Him. When he says: “And you shall be my people,  and I will be your God.,” (Jeremiah 30:22), He does not add any condition or time limit; and the “people” He makes this promise to include you, alive in every moment He gives you.

How many moments do you get?

One of the most obvious characteristics about God’s gift of time is that it is limited. You know no one, including yourself, who has not died or who is not going to die. Our time on earth is short compared to forever:

Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! (Psalms 39:5).

You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. (James 4:14).

In creating you, sustaining you in being, and loving you, God gives you the sum total of all your living moments

Conclusion

Imagine you know the actual date and time of your death. How would you proceed?  How would you do anything different from what you do now not knowing this? The point is that you should always act knowing that someday you will be out of time – you will die.

Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. (Ephesians 5:15-17).

Dr. Anthony P Witham said, “Children spell love as: T-I-M-E.” In the words of Rick Warren, “Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.”

Giving your time, God’s time, to another person, even if only a few moments, says to them what God has said to you: I value you, I want to be with you, I like you, I love you. Spending moments of your precious time with another lets them know, “Right now, you are the most important person to me.”

This also means that when you do this, the other person is sharing their treasured time with you.