1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

A Chinese writer said, "Time is invisible, but so real." Life provides evidence to us that, consciously or unconsciously, time has been used. Martin Heidegger, one of the greatest German thinkers, said that humans must live authentically, live in time. Jean Paul Sartre goes even further to say that states of being are swallowed up by non-existence. That is, life now can enjoy everything. But one day at death, everything is over, and there is nothing. We must consider that time is something of the essence of the process in the world that is relatively related to the process. In this world, nothing is eternal, only God, because He does not need the process; He is the One Who Exists from Eternal to Eternal. In contrast, everything that is created in the world undergoes a process, and in the process, we need time; that is why time is the essence of the process in the relative world. Secondly, Time is a reality that is related to space. Everything that God created has three of the most important elements, namely Space, Time, and Existence. Often, there are mistakes in the way of thinking of humans because we only see space as a container for accumulating property and never see time as a place for humans to be wiser. A wise person has a sense of time, and time in a balanced space; this person will have tremendous power in their life.
 
We find a similar appriach in Ecclesiastes 3: 1-15. The book that we know as Ecclesiastes is known in the Hebrew Scriptures as Qoheleth (sometimes spelled Qohelet or Koheleth). The first verse ascribes authorship to Qoheleth, "the son of David, leading many to presume that he is Solomon, who wrote the preceding book, Proverbs. Ecclesiastes, like Proverbs, is classified as a Wisdom book. The Teacher reflects on what he has learned about achievement, wealth, power, and other earthly pursuits.
 
A Time for Everything is a cherished Bible passage often quoted at funerals and memorial services. Tradition tells us that the book of Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon toward the end of his reign. Contained in one of the Poetry and Wisdom books of the Bible, this passage lists 14 "opposites," a common element in Hebrew poetry indicating completion. While each time and season may seem random, the underlying significance in the poem denotes a divinely chosen purpose for everything we experience in our lives. The familiar lines offer a comforting reminder of God's sovereignty. At one time, this expression, in the original language, implies a pre-determined occurrence. By implication, everything in the universe is part of a grand scheme, and all that takes place occurs at its appropriate, pre-determined time. This assertion, however, presupposes that Ecclesiastes advocates pre-determinism and fatalism. The first lines of each verse reflect antithetic parallelism,m while each succeeding line introduces a synthetic-synonymous parallelism. In some of the verses, the second line repeats the thoughts of the first, while in others the second completes the thoughts of the first.
 
In summary, this passage of Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 tells us about the interpretation in two forms of exegesis and exposition. Firstly, the temporal analysis of the time when this passage was written has to do with the Jewish agricultural context of about 935 B.C., and it deals with the cyclic times that are described in the first nine verses, where, through antonyms: positive and negative terms, one understands the extent of human activity and nature. On the second part, one understands the importance of God's central role in people's lives, where He has put eternity in their hearts, and has given the gift of work to be enjoyed by all who avail to it
 
The Teacher reflects on what he has learned about achievement, wealth, power, and other earthly pursuits. A time for everything' is a cherished Bible passage often quoted at funerals and memorial services. Tradition tells us that the book of Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon toward the end of his reign.
 
Contained in one of the Poetry and Wisdom books of the Bible, this passage lists 14 "opposites," a common element in Hebrew poetry indicating completion. While each time and season may seem random, the underlying significance in the poem denotes a divinely chosen purpose for everything we experience in our lives. The familiar lines offer a comforting reminder of God's sovereignty. The counsel is for man to live his life day by day as ordered by the hand of God. Man should come to the realization that God has a fitting time for each thing to be done, as established in verse 1. The significance of this section is that man is responsible to discern the right times for the right actions; and when he does the right action according to God's time, the outcome is 'beautiful' (v. 11). The message in this passage of poetry centers on God's ultimate authority in heaven and on earth. Humans have mastered many things in this world, but some elements of our existence are beyond our control. We cannot conquer time. God is the one who appoints each moment. Our lives contain a mixture of joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, harmony and struggle, and life and death. Each season has its appropriate time in the cycle of life. Nothing stays the same, and we, as God's children, must learn to accept and adjust to the ebb and flow of God's design. Some seasons are difficult, and we may not understand what God is doing. In those times, we must humbly submit to the Lord's plans and trust that he is working out his good purposes.
 
The Romans passage is a good example of the larger widest vision of God about the time, we told us through apostle Paul the realization of the their project through the Christianism as a seed sowed by Jesus during His ministry and after that for the first disciples through the early church and after many centuries we are here worshiping and adoring His Holly name because this is exactly His plan from the very beginning. God knew it, and Paul saw it clearly enough, and the Bible is the evidence of God's providence above history and reality.
 
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. We try to control everything, but that's impossible because we are just humans full of sin, and we are weak. The real power comes from God and belongs only to Him, because when we decide to come to Him and adore Him and worship His Holiness, we are preparing our eternity, we are seeing the complete landscape more than mere existence. We need to improve our vision to recognize God as the Time Master, as the only one capable of seeing throughout the centuries, and at the bottom of our hearts.
 

​14 After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. 15 “The time has come,” He said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”

Whenever we close a year and start a new year, we have different reflections about the time; we consider the goodness of life or the madness around us, depending on our scope and experiences. We are totally related to the time, and we usually feel like we understand how it works, but we live in continuous stress because we can not control the time, and it only passes by. Then, what exactly is this thing that we call time? How does it work? How can we have control over it? We can have three approaches to meditate on the importance and the implications of the time in our lives.

We usually understand time like something we can measure, or we can handle according to our expectations, but at the end of the story the time looks like something out of our control. The only ones who understand and certainly have control over time are God. The bible says in 2 Peter 3:8: But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Upon closer examination of Mark 1:15, we can observe a reference to God's understanding of time. It is important to distinguish between κρόνoς, which refers to a chronological span, and καιρός, which signifies an opportune time. In this verse, Mark 1:15 specifically uses the latter term. The phrase "accomplished" is often implied by the term "Πεπλήρωται," suggesting a fitting modern interpretation of "it's time!" This expression alludes to the period of devastation and death that occurred in the decades following 70 AD. Jesus spoke these words when he first began his mission in Galilee. According to the corresponding account in Matthew 4:17, Jesus started preaching about the Kingdom of God at that moment. The central focus of Jesus' mission was the Kingdom, which is evident from the approximately hundred references to it in the four Gospels, with the majority being attributed to Jesus himself. Jesus dedicated more attention to discussing the Kingdom of God in the Bible than to any other topic.

​The phrase "The time is fulfilled" signifies that John the Baptist, who fulfilled the role of "the one crying out in the wilderness" to announce the arrival of the Lord in human form, properly proclaimed and introduced Jesus as the prophesied Messiah mentioned in Isaiah chapter 40. John the Baptist ultimately met his death in prison. As the Lamb of God who atones for the sins of the world, he presented Jesus Christ as the Lord (John 1:29). John's role in fulfilling the prophecy from Isaiah 40 clarified the identity of Jesus Christ: He is both the YHWH of the Old Testament and the Jesus of the New Testament, who came to establish the promised Kingdom. Other Bible verses, such as Romans 13:11–12 ESV, Hebrews 1:1–2 ESV, 1 Peter 1:20, Galatians 4:4, and Ephesians 1:1,0 also emphasize God's oversight of time. A prime example of God's Kairos can be found in Mark 1:15.

The second thing that I would like to address is the Kronos, the human time, we are going to use the passage in Deut. 32 about the story of Aaron and the Golden Calf. While Moses was up on the mountain receiving God’s laws, the people were getting anxious down on the plain. Moses spent forty days (Exodus 24:18) up on the mountain with God, and by the end of that time, the people were beginning to think Moses had died or left them. The people urged Aaron, their temporary leader, to make gods for them to follow. Since they were accustomed to having visual representations of gods, this was the natural (but sinful) result of their thinking. Aaron took their gold earrings, which they had brought from Egypt, and melted them down to make a golden idol. The idol he crafted for them was a calf, but Aaron maintained the name of the Lord in connection with it (Exodus 32:5). He was merging the pagan practices they were familiar with and the worship of the God they were just beginning to be re-acquainted with. Aaron called the people together and told them that the golden calf was the god who delivered them from Egypt. The people offered sacrifices and then engaged in pagan rituals, including orgies (Exodus 32:25), to worship this new god.

Then, how can we ascertain God's intended timing? We can explore 1 Chronicles 12:32, which recounts the tale of the sons of Issachar who possessed a discernment of the seasons. According to Jewish scholars, the individuals from this tribe were well-versed in astronomy and the physical sciences. The purpose of mentioning this was likely to emphasize that these intelligent individuals were aligned with the military and had pledged their support to David. They possessed a profound understanding of public affairs, the nation's disposition, and the prevailing trends. Their wisdom was evident during this period as they remained faithful to Saul while he was alive, recognizing that it was not yet the appropriate time for David to assume the throne. Furthermore, they could not join David while Abner, who commanded the other tribes surrounding them, was still alive. However, as soon as Abner passed away and they had the opportunity to declare their loyalty, they acknowledged David as their king. These were men of extensive experience who always possessed the insight to discern what needed to be accomplished.
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We must recognize that time is just a structure that only operates under the control of God. We cannot know exactly how time is or how to manage it, but we can live under the Kairos of God, which means under His plans for our lives. We can trust in the God of history who governs everything with His wisdom and mercy. His providence rules the universe, so we can be sure that He knows when the right time is to move on or move back. We need to learn how to listen to God’s will, how to discern when God’s Kairos has come.

We need to take care about the Kronos which is the main source of stress and anxiety, as individual and as society we have biographic time and historical time which are concretes forms through which the time imposes above us, we are part of generations of humans: We live in jails of time, our lives depends primarily on clocks or agendas but at the end of the day the only truth is the eternity which is the place where God wait for us. We are more than packages of time; we are people, with a legacy, with a personal history, who are called to build a legacy and to transform the time in favor of others and in the name of God.

We need to learn how to discern the times’ signs around us, around the history, around the reality, as individual and as structures, we can find that there are a lot of signs of sin and injustice but also, we can identify signs of hope and mercy coming from God through the church and through of people of faith trying to transform the reality.  We need to grow in our discernment skills, we need to improve our senses to see everything happening around us, God’s plan not to stay inactive but to mobilize ourselves in the right directions according to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

May the good Lord and His Holy Spirit help us to discern the current time and how we can be pertinent for the new year to live under His will and under his governance; meanwhile, we expect His kingdom to come.