Time for Time

The time has come to pon­der time itself. The uni­verse con­sists of time, space, energy, and mat­ter. Of the four, time is the most mys­te­ri­ous. The other three are a bit mechan­i­cal. They can be manip­u­lated to some degree, but time remains time. It does what it was designed to do, and there is appar­ently noth­ing we can do about it.

Time exists so every­thing will not hap­pen all at once. It only exists in the present and can only be expe­ri­enced in the now. It has us. We do not have it. Time is a dynamic ref­er­ence point. It moves in an unchange­able and uncon­trol­lable direc­tion. Of all of God’s cre­ation, it is one of the most frus­trat­ing but most appre­ci­ated. We rely on it fully.

Eter­nity is the extended con­cept of time in a time­less state. It is some­thing we com­pre­hend only by its full nega­tion. From the Wis­dom lit­er­a­ture of the Bible we under­stand that “God has placed eter­nity in our hearts.” In other words, we are hard-wired to con­cep­tu­al­ize both time and never end­ing time. In fact, a human being is inca­pable of fully real­iz­ing any con­cept of not being. Some form or the­ory of life after death plays in the mind of even the most avid dis­be­liever.

There is a part of me that seems that it has always been. There is a part of me that seems to be for­ever unfold­ing. The really weird thing about this is its con­ti­nu­ity. It is as if we have all already arrived, but we are still on the jour­ney. Time moves but stays the same at the same time. For as mind-boggling as that is, it is some­thing that chil­dren express by sim­ply being them­selves — for they are one with time. They do not fight it like adults try to do. They know how to be in the moment.

Maybe time was invented by a time­less Being so that we would have some time to learn some things that require time to learn - before we return to the time­less state. What­ever it is, it is now time for you and me to get to our next life education task.