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It's About Time
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It's About Time by Phil Have you ever heard the phrase, "I'll be there in a jiffy?" As goofy as it sounds, a "jiffy" is an actual scientific term. Be prepared to amaze your friends and neighbors with this interesting and mostly useless factoid. Way back in 1926, physical chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis proposed a unit of time called the "jiffy" which was equal to the time it takes light to travel one centimeter in a vacuum (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds). In more modern computer technology, a "jiffy" is somewhere between 1/50 and 1/100 of a second depending on the application. Any way you count it, it's super fast! The apostle Peter told us, "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." - 2 Peter 3:8. With that comparison in mind, the time it takes between our uttering a prayer and God hearing it makes a "jiffy" seem like a verrrrrrry long time. Earlier in 1 Peter 3:12, Peter states, "For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their prayer." The Lord Himself told us, "Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear." - Isaiah 65:24. I'd call that instantaneous! Also on the speedy scale, Paul tells us when Jesus returns we will be changed "in a flash, in the twinkling (or blink) of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed." - 1 Corinthians 15:52. Considering a human blink lasts about 1/10 of a second, when Gabriel starts to pucker up, you better not blink! As author Barbara Johnson says, "He's Gonna Toot and I'm Gonna Scoot!" See you here, there, or in the air, Click Here to Check our Concert Schedule! Check us out on Facebook! - http://www.facebook.com/PhilandPamMorgan |
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