Time Time Time, What's Become of Me?

Last Friday marked the one year anniversary of my grandfather's death. Leading up to Friday, some of us in my family would remark on how it is almost a year already, or can you believe it is almost a year. It is strange. The year goes so quickly and yet it seems as though it was longer than that in some regards. Time is a funny thing. Sometimes five minutes seem like and eternity and then fifteen can go by in a second. It made me think how I still measure time and my Pop-Pop doesn't. I thought of a service at Pinebrook about twenty years ago. We sang "Every Day With Jesus, Is Sweeter Than The Day Before". As is the custom at some hymn sings the song leader asked for testimonies. He asked if anyone could agree with the song, any true life stories. My grandfather stood up and said he had been a Christian for over fifty years and every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before. I'm ashamed to say this now, but at the time I thought it was nice, but wondered if he just said it so that the song leader would move on. I know better now, my grandfather would have just sat there and not said anything if he didn't believe it. And knowing him as I grew up, I could see that he really did believe it. Perhaps the most wonderful thing is that I can see that becoming true in my life. I look back over the year and see how sadness a year ago has been turned into rejoicing for a loved one gone home. How in years past I've seen God provide in ways I could never have imagined. How it is Him and me for life. What better gift could I be given in this life. And while my sweeter than the day before is still going on, my grandfather is in the sweet by an by. I cannot imagine what it will be like to not look forward to anything. I look forward to family gatherings, holidays, bonuses, all sorts of things. But to finally be perfectly content in Heaven will be a feeling never experienced on earth. It doesn't get any better than Heaven. I just think that is a really wonderful thought.