If My People...

We have been looking at time with Ecclesiastes chapter 3 as our main scripture and as we continue let's try and highlight the importance of personalizing time. Recently, I have learnt that if you want to make a difference you don't need to know everything but you need to know somethings that are crucial. Time is one such thing that needs mastering. Many people do claim to know time; what the clock is saying, what date it is, what week or m onth is it and so on. Question is, does it have to end there? Remember time is best told by what is happening.  In Luke chapter 19, there's an account on Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem. I want us to see something that we usually miss on how the story turns into a weeping session. Verse 44 reads, "And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." This prophecy by Jesus about Jerusalem...

There are many ways the human race has set to tell time. We have demarcated time to seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and so on. But what does time tell? In his opening verse to chapter 3, the preacher says, "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." Here we see another way of describing time, season. But something else profound here is that "time/season is to a purpose" not the other way. This show s that another better way to tell/describe time is by what is happening or being done not just by the digits from a chronometer (watch) or calendar. As good as these things are for specificity, but at the core they're just aids in telling time. For most of the people of my age, when we ask our granny's their birthday dates, few of them remember correctly but the majority can accurately describe what was happening during their birth instead. When we study history, we see that most periods of time have b...