"The Longest Distance Between Any Two Points is the Shortcut"

This may be a short one but it is something that I recently.. like as in now.. had a revelation about. I'm reading a book for my Healing of the Inner Man class call Change Your Life with Changes That Heal by Dr. Henry Cloud. It got me thinking about time. In the past couple of years I've come to think how time is a man made thing. It's just a way to measure the day so it's not really important. It's just something we made up from when the sunrises till the sunsets. I'm sure you all knew or assumed that back in the day people woke up when it was light outside and went to sleep when it was dark.. simple as that. Time to me is relevant to a clock... well it use to be that way. It's a moment.. significant and small and impactful. God invented time. You know that verse in Ecclesiastes where it's like there's a time to be born a time to die a time to plant a time to... blah blah blah.. by the third line you're completely drained from saying,"a time to a time to." But it's actually quite moving. "God understands developmental process; he invented it. He uses time." What I find funny is I say time is man made I don't care about it but I always get to where I'm going before the scheduled time. I plan my day out I'm not strict to it or anything but I use God made time. Since the internship started our directors talk about how we're here to do and not waste time. Because if we waste our time then we're wasting God's time and none of us want to be responsible of that.
The most moving part of this book I decided to post so here it is.
"We have always been enticed by shortcuts. But shortcuts often spell failure, and this is Satan's goal. Satan tempts with quick riches and money-making schemes; God offers the blessings of long-time faithfulness: 'A faithful man will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished' (Proverbs 28:20) Satan tempts with instant intimacy through sexual passion, but God offers the faithful building of a loving relationship. Diet fads tempt with quick weight loss, but such diets do not develop the long-term discipline needed to maintain weight loss. Drugs and alcohol hold out immediate relief from suffering, but do not build character that can endure."

Erika said something the other day in one of our classes that I found relevant to my thought. She was talking about how whenever she fasts someone from the office brings in a chocolate cake. She like so many of us try to justify our situation. She debates for that slice of cake and the taste of it but she told us how when she wins her battle against herself it's beautiful. If she had ate the cake she could have missed out on a revelation God planned to give her all for a slice of cake. For that moment, however long it takes her to eat a slice of cake would be lovely but afterwards we'd just feel regret. We would have messed everything up just for that instant just for a taste.. when it comes down to it when we turn away cake we're still serving.. we're serving God in ALL THAT WE DO even turning down cake.
One of the sermons given not to long ago was what is our purpose in life... A lot of us wonder that. What in the world am I doing and the three bullet points were for being a follower of God were.. 1. It'll cost you your past ie Stop getting caught up in what you've done stop wondering what could have been 2. It'll cost you your future ie stop worrying what tomorrow holds stop trying to do your own thing 3. Ultimately it'll cost you everything. Salvation is free... You're going to have to forgive and you're going to have to forget.
"There is not a Devil in Hell that can over take you. God created you, he gave you existance, he cares for your future, there's no way he'll let that go away."

I guess that was actually quite long sorry guys! and I typed it quickly so the grammar is going to be bad! LOVE!