Time

A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life · Aug 12, 2026 · 3m

We can soar across oceans or even touch the moon, yet no one can leap over time neither backward to relive childhood nor forward to escape today’s trials. Longing for peaceful yesterdays or a trouble-free tomorrow is futile, for God gives us time one moment at a time, in perfect sequence, as both a test and an opportunity. Time is our life’s true wealth: it cannot be hoarded, traded, or skipped. Moses prayed, “Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom” (Psalm 90:12), and Paul urged us to redeem the time in these evil days (Ephesians 5:16). Only when we invest each…