This past Sunday, we began a new series to help us think about how we should engage our faith in 2017. The first sermon in this new series dealt with time – how God sees it and how we should use it. Time is our most precious commodity because it is non-renewable. Once time is gone, it is gone – we can’t get it back.
In developing my thoughts for the sermon, I kept coming back to the importance of living in the moment – being present. What I have come to believe over my more than a couple of years on this planet is that what matters most is right now.
The past is gone – it is the past. We can remember it, we can learn from it, we can celebrate it and sometimes we may even mourn it. But we cannot live in it.
The future is not yet and we cannot live there either. We can hope for it and we can even plan for it but it is still the coming but not yet. In fact, the future is not guaranteed.
The only thing we really have is right now.
This moment – – this breath.
Another thing I have come to believe is that each and every moment has eternal significance. And given the significance of each moment, I look at the present as the eternal now.
Paul Tillich, a theologian of major intellect and importance, used the term eternal now to describe a characteristic of God. But I am using these words in a different way. The eternal now is what you have in this second as you read these words. Are you fully present in this eternal now?
A form of the questions I challenged our church family with on Sunday are the questions I leave with you today:
- What should you do with your eternal now?
- What WILL you do with your eternal now?
Clay in the Hands 
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