The time Has Come

Have you read “Through the Looking Glass,” by Lewis Carroll? It is a crazy story full of weird characters, each carrying on strange conversations with others. Much of what they say makes absolutely no sense at all, such as –

Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Or,

The sun was shining on the sea
Shining with all his might
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright
And this was odd because it was
The middle of the night

All that they say is interesting, but strange, until the Walrus and the Carpenter were walking beside each other and the Walrus began to speak . . .

The time has come, the Walrus said
To talk of many things
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax
Of cabbages and kings

Now this makes sense. "The time has come to talk . . . " To speak of eternity. To say there is more to life than the present. To grasp the understanding that if we do not have God in our lives we are empty and vain. We eat today, but tomorrow we hunger again. We struggle with kids and coworkers, and tomorrow is a repeat of today. There has to be more than the day to day. There has to be reason, a greater reason than to be born, grow up, marry, have children, grow old and die.

There has to be more! And there is . . . Jesus Christ!

John 3:16 is more than a poster someone holds up at a ball game. It is truth . . . For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.