Twenty minutes

Twenty minutes is a long time if you are waiting for something. I know, for I have waited for lots of things. Yet, twenty minutes is not long at all if that’s all you have to save someone’s life. Twenty dollars is a lot for a drink but twenty dollars isn’t even a start if that’s all you have to live on.

Twenty buttons on a shirt,
Too much, too much.
Twenty buttons for all your clothes,
Better have a magic touch.

Twenty trees is a massive amount if you cut them down illegally but twenty trees is so little if a forest.

Doesn’t the number twenty seem so long? Sometimes it does. But, what if all you had was twenty minutes to find the truth? To make a decision, trust God or risk judgment? To risk being separated from God forever, for eternity? We would say it was a easy decision but what if until that moment you’d never even heard of him? What about if all you’d ever heard was God made the earth swallow up his enemies? What if, until you were told you had twenty minutes, you’d never heard Jesus died for you? And you have twenty minutes to find out and decide?

How long is twenty minutes then? Don’t wait to find out until all you have is twenty minutes.

Mandy