“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born and a time to die” (Ecclesiastes 3: 1, 2 KJV).
Time is a continuation of existence at an appropriate period, instant, moment, second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, season, decade, and century.
While we’re sitting still, time continues to run. We were born at a certain time and will die at our appointed time, and between the two, we have our lifetime. We do everything in time, maybe not on time, but at some time.
“In the Creation account, God had to have some place to put matter, so He created space. He had to make room for motion, so He created time. . . . time is the medium in which things change. . . . In order for change to occur, there must be a sequence of change. We call that sequence time.” – (A.W. Tozer)
According to the Bible, human history is about 6,000 years old. When man was created, God put him into a world that was already endowed with time, space, and matter. Man understands time, space, and matter. He has been subject to them from the beginning and has them down to a science. Man is conscious of time and aware of eternity (Ecc. 3:11). How a person perceives eternity will determine how they prepare for it and spend their time.
Man is good about manipulating time. We say we “make it” and “lose it” and “haven’t got it” and “take it” and “can’t find it” and “waste it” and are “pressed for it.” Sometimes we say we “have all the time in the world” whatever that means.
We time everything we do, so we’ll be on time for the next event we have timed and the next and so one. We’re a slave to time. We think if we can control our time we will have control of our life. We have a schedule that we attempt to follow. But we lose the synchronism between time and events, and everything falls apart, and we go into hysteria.
Our lifetime is on a timeline, and God has a plan for it, and if we submit to His leadership, our times and events will synchronize perfectly, and we will have peace and power (Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8).
Time was created by God for a purpose, and when that purpose is fulfilled, there shall be “time no longer” (Rev. 10: 6) and we will have nothing but a timeless eternity.
The Bible reveals God’s timeline or His schedule of coming events. As the past went exactly according to His plan, so will the future. The next event is the Rapture of the church, and it could happen at any moment. And only those who at some moment in time decided to trust Christ as their Lord and Savior will be in the Rapture. If you haven’t trusted Him as your Lord and Savior, now is the time to do so.
Time is very swiftly running out; your time and my time, and “Only one life t’will soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.”
Time is a Thread of Silver
We usually treat time glibly,
As cut from a spool of cheap twine,
Snipped off a little bit by bit,
As though from an endless line.
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The spool is as our lifetime,
And there our time is tightly wound,
And we don’t know when it will end,
Or know if it’s only half-wound.
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Time as we know is eternal,
But we only measure it down here.
We divide it up into increments,
From a moment to a whole year.
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We cut off time and waste it here
For things that won’t matter there.
We spend our time flippantly
Till our spool of time is bare.
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But time is like a thread of silver
That upon a spool of gold is wound.
And ev’ry length is highly valued
And not one moment of waste is found.
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A moment then a year is unwound
From the golden spool of silver thread.
Which cannot ever be rewound
But is kept till our record is read.
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Our life and time are always well spent,
And are never counted as a loss,
And they are surely never wasted,
If they’re spent on behalf of the Cross.
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Our time is quickly passing away
And our spool will very soon be bare.
Then will all that we have done here
Bring us a reward over there?
James H. Cagle©
