This is "Leap Day" and it usually happens every four years according to the Gregorian Calendar. (If you use a Hebrew Calendar then you simply get one extra month every 19 years.) Imagine a year with 13 months instead of 12!
Now this is probably a little too much of a science lesson for me but I am reminded of Joshua10:13. It says, "So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped until the people defeated their enemies..."The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and waited to go down for a full day (Joshua 10:13 NCV)." Joshua prayed for this miracle and God's divine intervention enabled the children of Israel time to defeat their enemy.
Now I am not praying for the "sun to stand still and the moon to stop" but sometimes I have to admit that I do say "I wish I had more time." Well I do! This year gives me an extra day. Now that I have an extra day on my calendar for this year, what will I do with it? Will it become absorbed into the other 365 days and just become another day?
Time is the most valuable thing that any of us have. Once time is spent it cannot be retrieve. Life goes on, regardless if we plan for it or not.
My prayer really should not be "Lord, give me more time," but "Lord, help me to use my time wisely. Help me to add value to the life of others by doing for others what they cannot do for themselves. Help me to speak words of encouragement when I speak and to know how to listen with my heart. To point out the strengths in others lives and not their weaknesses..."
"Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." (James 4:14 KJV)
"Lord, help me to spend this day, and every day wisely helping others!"
