The most famous song recorded by Otis Redding is also the most tragic. In the days before a fatal plane crash, Otis came out with that song that hit the top of the charts in 1968. He would never know it and enjoy the fruits of its success.
The song chronicles a broken man mired in loneliness and depression. He is sitting on the dock of the Bay in San Francisco, having left Georgia, and he’s wasting time.
Did you know time comes from God and we can waste it?
And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Don’t waste time. Find out who created you, placed you in this time slot and decided when your time was up.
Think about it.
Gary