What’s the time? It’s easy to find out if you have a watch or there’s a clock nearby. Although I’ve seen people look at the time, and then be asked ‘what time is it?’ and they have to look again. I once heard a watch being called ‘the god on your wrist’.
The world we live in has two reliable natural clocks which give us the basis of counting time: the daily dawn and dusk, and the annual cycle of the year; but there are other things that recur in a less regular fashion: economic ups and downs; good and bad years of harvest; even snow and wind – they come and go ways we wish we could predict with some certainty.
I don’t think God worries about our human clocks very much, but he does have a sense of ‘the right time’. A right time for the things he is doing (“at just the right time … Christ died” Rom 6:5), and a right time us to do things. “When the time came” Luke tells us, Mary came to the temple with Jesus to make an offering.
So, what about me? Do I live by the ticking second-hand, or is God’s time something I can sense, wait for, and fall in with?
Raymond.