Anniversary Clock

It took a long time to occur but it happened a few days ago. I have one of those 400 Day Anniversary Clocks. It takes a year for it to run down, therefore, the name. It sits on the piano in the front window. It looks wonderful in the dark with the lone street light casting its glaze on the rotating spheres. While I love walking by it at the end of the day, I wonder how long it will keep going. I bought it at a garage sale for $10 and it’s been going ever since. Just needed to be set up perfectly. There was another clock that I would love to own. It’s the Atmos Clock. Many years ago, a clockmaker put together a clock that was almost perpetual. It keeps going longer then I had ever heard of before. The change in barometric pressure is what winds that clock.
Another clock that fascinates me is located at the entrance of the Smithsonian in Washington. There you will see an enormous pendulum clock that tells the time by the turning of the earth. It is a mathematical formula that someone took the time to work out and it just keeps going and going with the rotation of the earth. Amazing to watch. Don’t know how it keeps going but it does.
For each and everyone one of my clocks and watches, something keeps them going. Either springs or wires, weights and counterbalances. I believe it’s true for us. Something keeps us going. But something stops us as well. When dirt or dryness slows the clocks, it will be eventually stopped. When that happens, we send them out to be fixed. God intended us to go on for a long time. But our lives are filled with dirt and dryness, and we call it sin and self. A while ago I read something profound that I will never forget. It was after reading Solomon where he said, that he has tried everything and all is meaningless. What the other person said was, “The number one reason people no longer go to church is, they love their sin.”
When our sin and self have taken their toll on our lives, we will need to go back to our maker to be fixed and we will repeat Solomon’s words, “here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments . . . ”
Maybe, just maybe a little adjustment will fix us now.
Something to think about.\
Rob