The Master of the time

Romans 12: 1 - 2

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.