Cold take: I think Daylight Saving Time and changing the clocks twice a year is lame! I do appreciate that when we fall back it is the one Sunday out of the year most of Restore shows up on time for church. However, I don’t think it’s worth the weird jet-laggy, “why am I so hungry?” feeling we deal with in the days after as we try to adjust our bodies to the new declared time. Sure, we save a little energy and farmers are a little happier, but at what cost?
Unfortunately, I do not have the political power to sway the world or the US to change. If it was truly an important issue to me, I could move to Arizona or Hawaii, and those are two very different situations. What I must accept is that a change has happened and live into it. If I have a meeting at 4pm and show up at 5pm no one is going to accept, “I refuse to acknowledge a change in the clocks!” as an excuse, they’ll just think I’m late. The times are new.
A similar change happens when you recognize or accept the call of God on your life. You give up the old way of doing things and live into the new person you’ve become. Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:17-19, 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
This change, that we had no hand in creating, puts away the old creation and picks up the new creation. Where last week you drove to work in darkness now you drive in the light. Where before you were lost in sin, God, through Christ, found you and washed you clean. We can’t hold on to the past, who you were this time last week may be completely different from who you are now, because we have experienced the love of Christ, and have (hopefully) grown. Live into the new creation that you have become through Christ.
With or without Daylight Saving the time you have is now.