Time is best understood in terms of a 360° revolution of the earth which is 24 hours, 1440 minutes, 86,400 seconds or millions of milliseconds – all those add up to weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia and ages.

Time is real, and yet you cannot hold it, touch it or manipulate it. Time has no beginning or end and is ever present. Time is fixed and yet it can drag or fly as the saying goes. As a five year old, waiting for Christmas morning is an eternity, but as an eighty-five year old, the days pass like a weavers shuttle to quote Scripture, and yet it moves at the same rate for both. So perception of time is a factor, but does not change it.

People say they have time on their hands, or they have plenty of time. They also say time is short or I don’t have enough time. Time has no material, moral nor aesthetic quality. And yet you can have a bad time, or a good time. There can be a right time and a wrong time.

Time is a reference point – what time is dinner? What time does the concert start? We’ll meet at a certain time. I’ll be on time. Sometimes people will ask if you have time? We all have time, but the time we have is not all the same and yet time is all the same.

People live a “lifetime”, and yet a baby that dies an hour after being born has a much different lifetime than a man who lives to be one hundred years old. Time is something we use, and we can use it wisely or foolishly, but it will pass at the same rate no matter what.

Time is the most ubiquitous, and yet limited, commodity on the planet. Limited in the amount we have to experience before we die. People who are wealthy can buy other people’s time to do things that make their lives enjoyable, profitable, and hopefully useful. Nonetheless, the wealthy have no more time than is allocated to them.

GOD created time. The Scripture (Bible) begins with “In the beginning…” God is not bound by time as His creation is. Man is part of, and the crown of, His creation. Man’s time on earth is for GOD’s glory, although man does not always see it that way. From the Garden of Eden, man (Adam and Eve) rebelled against GOD and brought misery and death upon themselves and all future generations.

As such, GOD condemned them to death if they sinned, which they did, and so death is upon us all. As Scripture says, we are appointed to die once, and then the judgement. But in GOD’s mercy and grace, he also provided a Savior to make death a pleasant experience. To die and go to Heaven is much more desirable than the alternative Hell.

In Heaven for eternity, we are promised to be in the presence of GOD, and that there is no night there, and that every tear will be wiped away, and that there will be nothing but joy and peace – no sickness, no injuries, no fear, no hunger, no thirsting, no discomfort, no want – all will be perfect!

On the other hand, Hell is a place of eternal torment where the worm never dies, there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, it is dark, hot, without food or refreshment (water), terror and misery.

So, the bottom line is; where do you want to spend the lion’s share of your time – eternity?

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