TIME UP!

"I believe it is peace in our time." - Neville Chamberlain 

Usually, everything that begins on Earth must have an end: I believe it's called a time span. For instance there's a time span between "impregnation" and delivery. There's a time span between life and death. There is also a time span between one event, and the next. Circumstances too - pleasant or unpleasant - have time spans.

At the end of the 19th century two French writers went to visit the well-known French scientist, Peirre Berthelot. Berthelot was a kind of scientific prophet. He forecast some of the weapons of mass destruction which would appear in the next century. He said to the writers, "We have only begun to list the alphabet of destruction." Silence fell over the meeting. Then the elder of the two writers said quietly, "I think before that time comes, God will come like a great
gatekeeper with his keys dangling at his waist and say, 'Gentlemen, it's closing time.'

I know it seems as though your pain has come to stay. I understand that it has gotten so bad, that you have, as it were, become acquainted with grief. Like sorrow is the only normal thing in your life's experience especially in the last ten months of 2015. It might even seem like the devil has just begun to list the alphabets of sorrow over you. However, I come to announce to you, this morning that God is on your case in this last two months saying to your sorrows, 'Gentlemen, it's closing time!' Cheer up!