What time is it?

It’s getting about time to craft your Christmas wish list. How about this? A Tikker Watch!

This watch is really different. You enter your age, weight, eating habits, exercise patterns, vices or lack thereof, and family history. It considers, calculates and then displays years, months, days, minutes, and seconds, counting down until your death!

Fredrik Colting, the inventor, explains it is not meant to be a morbid reminder of death but a way "to cherish the time and the life that we have been given, to honor it, suck the marrow from it, seize the day and follow our hearts. And the best way to do this is to realize that seconds, days and years are passing never to come again."

An investor in the project says it is not about how time you have but what you do with it. OK, I like that. I like the idea of living with an awareness of my mortality and the promise of eternity.

From Hebrews 9:27,28, I know this:

Everyone has to die once, then face the consequences. Christ’s death was also a one-time event, but it was a sacrifice that took care of sins forever. And so, when he next appears, the outcome for those eager to greet him is, precisely, salvation.

So I/we say this everyday:

Psalm 118:24 — This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

I don’t need a Tikker. I can live each day joyfully and with confidence in the future. How about you?