WE THINK time belongs to us when we are young - and we fill our time with studying, partying.

As we get older, marry, have 2.3 kids, move on in a career, time comes under a bit more pressure, but hopefully we have the energy to have lots of leisure pursuits too.

But as you move 'over the hill', you suddenly realise time is running away from you fast. Once you felt like you would live forever, now your days seem packed and you never quite get everything done.

And finally, you sit in your chair watching others, much younger than you, moving through time when yours has nearly run out.

And so often, we don't even stop to think about time, about eternity and about our own responses to it all.

It's shocking when tsunamis and hurricanes blow the world apart - but then we carry on because it wasn't our world that got hit!

Jesus said, 'Don't store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.' (The Bible, Mt. 6:19-21)

Take a bit of time out to think, to look for treasure that is everlasting, for a friendship with the living God that lasts forever!