Hello ,

A new product called Tikker is a wristwatch that counts down your life so you can make every second count. Available in April 2014 and boasting thousands of preorders, the Tikker allows you to watch as a dot-matrix screen displays the seconds you have left on earth as they disappear down a black hole. Your estimated time of death is, of course, just that-an estimate. Tikker uses an algorithm like the one used by the federal government to figure a person's life expectancy and then converts that into a countdown of the years, months, days, minutes, and seconds you have left on this earth. The effect is sobering, a sort of incessant grim reaper reminding you that time is running out.

Tikker's inventor is a 37-year-old Swede named Fredrik Colting. He says he invented the gadget not as a morbid novelty item, but as an earnest attempt to change his own thinking. Colting, a former gravedigger, said, "The occurrence of death is no surprise to anyone, but in our modern society we rarely talk about it. I think that if we were more aware of our own expiration I'm sure we'd make better choices while we are alive." That's why he calls Tikker "the happiness watch." It's his belief that watching your life slip away will remind you to savor life while you have it.*

If you're a Christian, you don't have to be told that time is not ours to hold onto in this life...but we CAN be sure that the time that we DO have can be in God's hands.  He has big plans for His children, and no wristwatch could ever track the eternity that is planned for those that have a deep, abiding relationship with Him.

Are your moments filled with Jesus today?  

Have a great day and God bless!

Pastor Mike / The Open Word 

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