Sunday, July 12, 2009

Tick tock, tick tock.

Time.
It really freaks us out. How much time do we have left? And then we're always trying to figure out what to do with the time that we have. But here's the funny thing about time. It doesn't change. It's always certain. I know that in exactly 24 hours from now it will be the same time that it is now. And in 60 minutes, an hour has passed. Seven days; that's a week. Yes, there are changes when it comes to daylight savings and lunar calendars and whatnot, but the point is: time remains the same. Time is a lot like God. God has always been and will always be the same. Time rules our life sort of the way our Lord does. Everlasting, never-changing. Here's the difference. When we think of time, we think of either birth to death, or history of the world sort of thing. When we think of God..we tend to think more about Heaven. and when you think of Heaven, do you think of time? I know I don't. Because when you think of eternal life, time has no control, it doesn't mean anything.
In Ecclesiastes, chapter 1, verse 4 says "Generations come and generations go, but the earth never changes. 5 The sun rises and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again."
Ecclesiastes is a great book when it comes to figuring out life on earth. In chapter 3, it really breaks down 'time':
A Time for Everything

1 For everything there is a season,
A time for every activity under heaven.
2 A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.
3 A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
4 A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.
5 A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
6 A time to search and a time to quit searching.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.
7 A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
8 A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do people really get for all their hard work? 10 I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. 11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. 12 So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. 13 And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.

So what do time and God have in common? They never change. They're everlasting.
But time is bound to earth; Heaven has no concept of it.

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