Telling Time
I had the privilege of ministering to high school students yesterday morning. I'm no evangelist, nor am I a preacher, in fact my gift doesn't seem fitting for outreaches, but boy do I get a kick out of them. I don't know what God did there, I'm just glad he did it because there's nothing that fulfills me more than sharing the gospel of Jesus with the world, especially the 'youngins'. The message God laid in my heart was about time. Of course I went to Ecclesiastes 3, but I only went as far as verse 1 and had a handful to understand.
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven;" Ecc. 3:1
What had me here is the fact that there's a time for EVERYTHING, which means one needs to have the ability to tell what time it is and what activity is suitable for such a time. The ability to tell time is an acquired skill. Just like how we were taught to read time off clocks in primary school, one needs to be taught how to tell time.
Why? Because you can't always assume what time it is by merely considering how things appear. Generally, the sun is used to tell time. But we all know that it's not everyday that the sun shines, in fact, there are places on earth where the sun shines longer or less than usual. So I can't assume it's night time just because it's cloudy and dark, I need to depend on the skill to read time and not mere appearance.
Something else that had me excited was the differentiation between time and seasons. I thought of time zones; time within time. Within time, each country has it's own time, this is how our lives are as well. Within time, each person has his/her own (life)time, this is why we are born at different times, and why we'll die at different times. Some have less time while others have more, but each has been allocated time by the author of time (see Psalm 139:16). This is why the psalmist prayed in Psalm 90:12 to be taught to number his days, to tell time, to tell his time within time.
It is only when I can tell time that I'll be able to pace myself. I will not see others as competition, I will have no time to envy their achievements because I will know that I am within my time zone. It might be night on my side while it is day for them, winter for me while it's summer on their side; but that will not leave me in despair or desperate to be like them because I will be able to tell time. Just because you're thirty and unmarried, twenty something and still living at home, a graduate without a job, doesn't mean it will not happen for you, your time will come.
God who exists outside time is the only capable teacher of time. While it might appear to be a time to relax and enjoy in the sight of many, he knows that my time on earth has reached its end (remember the parable of the rich fool in Luke 12?) God knows when I'm quarter-to my miracle, when I'm five-to my breakthrough; He knows when I'm a minute away from leaving this earth. If taught to read time, we will live the best lives we possibly can, and when heaven calls, we'll leave empty, and in the words of the apostle, having been poured out, run the race and fought the good fight.
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven;" Ecc. 3:1
What had me here is the fact that there's a time for EVERYTHING, which means one needs to have the ability to tell what time it is and what activity is suitable for such a time. The ability to tell time is an acquired skill. Just like how we were taught to read time off clocks in primary school, one needs to be taught how to tell time.
Why? Because you can't always assume what time it is by merely considering how things appear. Generally, the sun is used to tell time. But we all know that it's not everyday that the sun shines, in fact, there are places on earth where the sun shines longer or less than usual. So I can't assume it's night time just because it's cloudy and dark, I need to depend on the skill to read time and not mere appearance.
Something else that had me excited was the differentiation between time and seasons. I thought of time zones; time within time. Within time, each country has it's own time, this is how our lives are as well. Within time, each person has his/her own (life)time, this is why we are born at different times, and why we'll die at different times. Some have less time while others have more, but each has been allocated time by the author of time (see Psalm 139:16). This is why the psalmist prayed in Psalm 90:12 to be taught to number his days, to tell time, to tell his time within time.
It is only when I can tell time that I'll be able to pace myself. I will not see others as competition, I will have no time to envy their achievements because I will know that I am within my time zone. It might be night on my side while it is day for them, winter for me while it's summer on their side; but that will not leave me in despair or desperate to be like them because I will be able to tell time. Just because you're thirty and unmarried, twenty something and still living at home, a graduate without a job, doesn't mean it will not happen for you, your time will come.
God who exists outside time is the only capable teacher of time. While it might appear to be a time to relax and enjoy in the sight of many, he knows that my time on earth has reached its end (remember the parable of the rich fool in Luke 12?) God knows when I'm quarter-to my miracle, when I'm five-to my breakthrough; He knows when I'm a minute away from leaving this earth. If taught to read time, we will live the best lives we possibly can, and when heaven calls, we'll leave empty, and in the words of the apostle, having been poured out, run the race and fought the good fight.
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