Awash In A Sea of Time

I have been reflecting on the issue of time, and I shared something with a group this week I would like to share with you:

 

Here we meet at a given time, trying to start on time, to meet a deadline. I feel the pressure of time. But frankly I do that each day. I wake up earlier than the time I want, I adjust my schedule (i.e. my time) to meet the demands of the day, and regardless of what happens that day, it is then gone.
            I have also been reading about the beginning of time. Without going into too much detail, the best evidence our scientists can come up with confirms a view consistent with scripture: time began. Prior to the “beginning” of the universe, there was no time. God doesn’t appear to be limited by this time, until he decideds to be. He creates it, meddles with it, and lets it run through his fingers.   Our very existence on the other hand, is defined by it: our birth, death, and the times in which we live. 
            Here are some verses I wish to read aloud, and I will take my time doing it. Please reflect on whatever it might say to you of God, His purposes, His Ways, or His calling and training of you.
 
Genesis 1:1-5 
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
 
Genesis 5:5     
Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.
 
Psalm 37:9      
The salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD;
       he is their stronghold in time of trouble.
 
Psalm 84:10    
Better is one day in your courts
            than a thousand elsewhere
 
Psalm 90:4      
For a thousand years in your sight
       are like a day that has just gone by,
       or like a watch in the night.
 
Psalm 144:3-4
O LORD, what is man that you care for him,
       the son of man that you think of him?
Man is like a breath;
       his days are like a fleeting shadow.
 
Esther 4:14     
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?”
 
Ecclesiastes 3:1                      
There is a time for everything,
     and a season for every activity under heaven
 
John 3:22        
After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.
 
John 4:21        
Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
 
John 17:1-2    
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
 
Romans 5:6    
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
 
Philippians 1:3
I thank my God every time I remember you.
 
1 Peter 5:6      
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
 
Revelation 22:10        
Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near.