TIME AND CHANGE

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 shows 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 been termed by what was happening; Renaissance, Reformation, Ice age, Iron age etc. These two facts just highlight the importance of telling time by a set occurrence. We observe a parallelism between change of events and change of time. The similarity here is change. Actually time in any other way can be describing a change, like how Ravi Zacharias (a famous Christian apologist) likes to say "time is a calibration of change".

From the scripture above we realize that it's the change of purpose which ought to determine the change of time(s). Which brings me to this question; what is time? Could it actually be the measure of change? Brethren, as we celebrate the changing seasons, months, year, e.t.c, I want to appeal to our sense of reasoning; if this be a new season for you what has changed? What is new about 2019? and old about 2018? What is new about October and old about September? Are you planning to change as the seasons change? What do you plan to change about yourself? Pause and ask yourself such. I challenge you, there won't be a new season if nothing around and about you changes. Remember time is the calibration of change.

Further study:

Ecclesiastes 3:1-12

Isaiah 43:19

Proverbs 23:18

2 Corinthians 5:17