Sunday, February 13, 2011

Time Divine

As controversial as this may sound, I've come to believe and agree that time is divine. Man endeavours to change everything, own everything, affect everything, influence everything, explain everything and understand everything. The one thing he is completely unable to own, affect, influence, explain and understand is time. And there in lies his inability to understand God because time is divine and like time, we cannot understand God. The best definition I came across of time is that it's a dimension in which things exist. Sounds straight forward and clear until you begin to interrogate it. The best scholars haven't been able to determine whether time is a pre-existing structure within which events occur or it's simply man's attempt at sequencing and comparing events. One thing is now clear to me. There is a point man describes as the beginning of time. We think it, we believe it, we try to understand and explain it, but we fall short and can only theorize. What man has been unable to explain, he ascribes to a higher being, the heavens, forces, cosmos or whatever bodies that relieves him of the pain of explanation. Call  a spade a spade. Time is divine. Before there was, it was. After there is, it shall be. It's God's tool of defining, refining, recycling, retiring and re-engineering things. The last 5 minutes in which I wrote this are not retractable or recoverable. They are gone. But where? No they aren't gone anywhere. Time is cyclical in God's plan. It's however definite and expendable in our plan. We are the passing items, time is the constant. The best we can do is invest our time for the benefit of others when we are retired. When man realizes how divine time is, we shall have a universe of respecters of God's time. Of understanding that time is an asset only if and when you use it well and it's a big liability if you waste it. Yes, time can be a liabilty...having a lot of time to do wrong creates success at doing wrong. Success at going in the wrong direction is failure. Time is success when at the passage of it, there is fruit, a yield, positivity. It's a gift given us by our birth and taken from us at our death but time well spent is an honour to it's owner.