Tracking Time is a man made concept.
We created a calendar and a clock to track time.
We used to burn candles with marks on them to tell the time at night, using sundials during the day.
Why did we? Because man is finite.
God is infinite and has a much bigger vision than we do. He sees things past present and future. We can only imperfectly see the moment we are in. We do not have His scope, His vision.
We are in a minutae filled world, letting the cares of the seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months, and years eat us up.
Which calendar is the best?
In doing research I find a ton of calendars.
Some lunar (Moon) based, some Solar (Sun) some seasonal, some alterations of others with names changed etc.
Our definition and tracking of time also varies by region and country. Astronomers accept a day as noon to noon. Whereas GMT is midnight to midnight.
We change time every year with daylight savings.
What time is it? what day? what month in what year?
We are obsessed with time.
It is our most precious commodity.
Yet it is something we squander with out impunity. We squander, we waste we we ignore the preciousness of it.
The mindless pursuit of entertainment, work, cellphones always on texting talking blabbing, gaming and to what purpose?
Does it better us? are we using the tools and technology for good or is it for naught?
To amuse ourselves? to gossip? to make sure everyone knows our opinion or to take a selfie because they might have forgotten what we look like in the last 5 minutes?\
Ecc 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Time. Solomon devoted a lot of his writings to time. As he was older he too saw the waste of time the pursuits of wealth fame and amusements as a waste of time.
There is no fulfillment in those things they are just a way to distract from what is truly important.
Ecc 2:10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Ecc 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Solomon states that only that which God does shall last. Men from time imemmorial have gone unnoticed, forgotten. We remember a few handily, we have writings that tell us of others. But what of those we have no record of? What of the everyday ordinary man that has passed and in a few generations his thoughts, his actions, his family were gone?
We remember a few Socrates, Plato, Columbus, Nero.Torquemada etc..
Some known for wisdom and good. Some known for madness and evil. But what we know of them is in their writings or in snippets of their actions we do not know Them.
Their work their actions have lost all meaning except as a reminder. Their actions which at the time were world shaking are now mere words.
Full civilizations small and great are gone. Whole cities, major areas of commerce and government are gone.'
They are digging in places now uncovering lost cities to try and see their way of life. Cities which a couple hundred years ago were a big deal.
All lost in the annals of Time. Time marches on.
What are we doing with our time? Will it matter in the long run? Will it stand the test of time?
We actually have very little that stands the test of time. Even recent American history barely 200 years old is being re-written because we have forgotten.
Time. such a vague thing. Such a powerful thing. We can neither see it nor possess it yet it controls everything.
What are you doing with yours?
We created a calendar and a clock to track time.
We used to burn candles with marks on them to tell the time at night, using sundials during the day.
Why did we? Because man is finite.
God is infinite and has a much bigger vision than we do. He sees things past present and future. We can only imperfectly see the moment we are in. We do not have His scope, His vision.
We are in a minutae filled world, letting the cares of the seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months, and years eat us up.
Which calendar is the best?
In doing research I find a ton of calendars.
Some lunar (Moon) based, some Solar (Sun) some seasonal, some alterations of others with names changed etc.
Our definition and tracking of time also varies by region and country. Astronomers accept a day as noon to noon. Whereas GMT is midnight to midnight.
We change time every year with daylight savings.
What time is it? what day? what month in what year?
We are obsessed with time.
It is our most precious commodity.
Yet it is something we squander with out impunity. We squander, we waste we we ignore the preciousness of it.
The mindless pursuit of entertainment, work, cellphones always on texting talking blabbing, gaming and to what purpose?
Does it better us? are we using the tools and technology for good or is it for naught?
To amuse ourselves? to gossip? to make sure everyone knows our opinion or to take a selfie because they might have forgotten what we look like in the last 5 minutes?\
Ecc 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Time. Solomon devoted a lot of his writings to time. As he was older he too saw the waste of time the pursuits of wealth fame and amusements as a waste of time.
There is no fulfillment in those things they are just a way to distract from what is truly important.
Ecc 2:10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Ecc 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Solomon states that only that which God does shall last. Men from time imemmorial have gone unnoticed, forgotten. We remember a few handily, we have writings that tell us of others. But what of those we have no record of? What of the everyday ordinary man that has passed and in a few generations his thoughts, his actions, his family were gone?
We remember a few Socrates, Plato, Columbus, Nero.Torquemada etc..
Some known for wisdom and good. Some known for madness and evil. But what we know of them is in their writings or in snippets of their actions we do not know Them.
Their work their actions have lost all meaning except as a reminder. Their actions which at the time were world shaking are now mere words.
Full civilizations small and great are gone. Whole cities, major areas of commerce and government are gone.'
They are digging in places now uncovering lost cities to try and see their way of life. Cities which a couple hundred years ago were a big deal.
All lost in the annals of Time. Time marches on.
What are we doing with our time? Will it matter in the long run? Will it stand the test of time?
We actually have very little that stands the test of time. Even recent American history barely 200 years old is being re-written because we have forgotten.
Time. such a vague thing. Such a powerful thing. We can neither see it nor possess it yet it controls everything.
What are you doing with yours?
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