WHAT IS TIME ?
WHERE DID TIME COME FROM?
Where did time come from? We know exactly when it is daytime and night time don’t we? We know when it is springtime, summer, autumn and winter. We know exactly what time it is, what day it is, what month it is, what year it is and what century it is.
How do we know all these things?
We know them because they are here and there and everywhere. Wherever we stay or go time is there. We can’t go anywhere without time. Time belongs to days, weeks, months and years and to the days of our lives.
Time is not just the invention of the clock. A clock only measures time. What then does it measure? Time is a measurement of light and motion. The light of the sun divides day from night. Day and night are separated by sunrise and sunset, (Genesis 1:14) and by the earth rotating to face the sun during the day and the stars at night.
God made the sun, the earth and the stars and set them in the sky to separated the day from the night, the months from the years and the seasons one from another. (Genesis 1:16-18)
So God put time in stars and planets, so precisely that time can be measured by a clock, but the real clock is God’s timepiece of light and motion in space.
SOULS
God also put time in souls to know the past, the present and the future. The Greeks who knew about this sort of time called it kairos or the presence of time. This presence transcends chronos or tick tock time for the mind is not a machine or a clock. It is an immortal soul unlimited by chronos time.
It also has the sense of NOW. ‘Now is the day of salvation, for instance, (2 Corinthians 6:2) for instance. This time may be an age or a moment, a readiness to grasp the time of salvation. It is God’s gift of time to repent of our sins and believe the gospel. Souls are precious to God and he knows each one from all eternity.
How little we would learn of love
If time were a fleeting breath,
And how impossible, it would be
To join a you and me
In one long life of love,
No matter how time passed
For love is more than time
And more than time has lapsed.
Where did time come from? We know exactly when it is daytime and night time don’t we? We know when it is springtime, summer, autumn and winter. We know exactly what time it is, what day it is, what month it is, what year it is and what century it is.
How do we know all these things?
We know them because they are here and there and everywhere. Wherever we stay or go time is there. We can’t go anywhere without time. Time belongs to days, weeks, months and years and to the days of our lives.
Time is not just the invention of the clock. A clock only measures time. What then does it measure? Time is a measurement of light and motion. The light of the sun divides day from night. Day and night are separated by sunrise and sunset, (Genesis 1:14) and by the earth rotating to face the sun during the day and the stars at night.
God made the sun, the earth and the stars and set them in the sky to separated the day from the night, the months from the years and the seasons one from another. (Genesis 1:16-18)
So God put time in stars and planets, so precisely that time can be measured by a clock, but the real clock is God’s timepiece of light and motion in space.
SOULS
God also put time in souls to know the past, the present and the future. The Greeks who knew about this sort of time called it kairos or the presence of time. This presence transcends chronos or tick tock time for the mind is not a machine or a clock. It is an immortal soul unlimited by chronos time.
It also has the sense of NOW. ‘Now is the day of salvation, for instance, (2 Corinthians 6:2) for instance. This time may be an age or a moment, a readiness to grasp the time of salvation. It is God’s gift of time to repent of our sins and believe the gospel. Souls are precious to God and he knows each one from all eternity.
How little we would learn of love
If time were a fleeting breath,
And how impossible, it would be
To join a you and me
In one long life of love,
No matter how time passed
For love is more than time
And more than time has lapsed.