This is a difficult question to answer. "What time is it?". The question to follow could be, "Where?". Country singer Alan Jackson had a hit song called, "It's Five O'clock Somewhere". That is true. Not everywhere...but somewhere.
Keeping time with clocks and watches is relatively new. The sun has always been the master timepiece made by the Master Timekeeper. Men have always been fascinated by time. It is an intricate and difficult study. There were water clocks. They were not dependable. Certainly water clocks were not portable. Sundials worked, but only when the sun was shining. It was in the 1600's that mechanical clocks began to appear. Quartz watches and clocks have come in recent years. Atomic clocks are out there. Greenwich Mean Time has been a source for use in setting our clocks. Twelve time zones around the world are complicated by "summer" time or, as we call it, "daylight savings time". Today, one can purchases a $5.00 watch or a $5,000. watch (or much more). What we pay for the timepiece changes nothing about time itself.
There are many references to time in the Bible. God sees time as a valuable commodity. My favorite is found in Ecclesiastes 3. Take a moment to read this treatise on time.
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven;
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
What time is it in your life?
