God's Calendar, My Blackberry

I have just transferred all my coming events from my Palm Treo to my Blackberry's calendar. I have few calendars to work on - my Girls' Brigade, Church, business, friends and family. In fact, the Blackberry's Calendar is as handy as Palm Treo's, I am much "addicted" to BB that my new friend Henry said, "Sandra said I am BB Henry, so you are BB Yan!" (Sandra is my best friend, I know Henry through her)

I plan, I program, I try to fit in the calendar my desires and my interests, besides the "musts", birthdays and anniversaries. I may not be able to fulfill all the plans. But, at least, it gives me an outline on what I intend to do in 2009, and what I need to do.

Why do I do that? Or do you also do that? There are limits of life. We know the limitations. So, we tell ourselves, “Let’s make the year counts. Let’s use time to the full.”

I have my calendar, beautifully planned. What’s my position in God’s calendar?

This pressing question keeps bothering me. Does God also keeps a calendar that includes me?

Today, I studied the book of Leviticus and was amazed by God’s calendar of feasts for Israel. There were seven of them, plus the weekly Sabbath. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, are My feasts.”

From the feasts of The Passover to the Feast of Firstfruits, The feast of weeks, the feast of trumpets, the day of atonement and finally to the feast of tabernacles, these are God at work in our life or in our Calendar. It ultimately comes at the place of joy.

C.S. Lewis says, “The ultimate purpose of God in all his work is to add joy.”

The last feast, the Feast of Tabernacles is a beautiful picture of the joy in God’s Calendar. It is written,

…when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days, ….. you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days….

Then, in God’s calendar, there are Sabbath Year and Year of Jubilee. Sabbath Year occurred every seven years, while the Year of Jubilee was to be celebrated every fifty years.

Aren’t these delightful topics? The feasts and the Jubilee!

Looking at my Blackberry of events, I have a new understanding of God’s Calendar. I would have included in my calendar a time of rest, an opportunity for redemption, a time for reflection, a time for reward and repair, a time for relationships, a time to refocus, a time for feasts, a time for Jubilee!

Where are you in God’s Calendar?