What is time? Who decided the hours, minutes and seconds in what we call a day? Can it be found in Scripture, this thing we call time; as we have determined today in what we call modern society, or even as it was in generations past?
The Bible/Torah tells us that to YHWH a day is as a thousand years. We are also told that He created the universe in 6 days and rested on the 7th day. If we take the two, a day being a thousand years, then Creation took 6000 years and YHWH rested for 1000 years. Did YHWH need to rest; was He exhausted, for that is certainly why I seek to rest; because I am tired and worn out from doing something and I need to rejuvenate, replenish my energy? That’s a whole other topic for discussion; back to this business of time.
Again in thinking of YHWH, I recall reading somewhere (could have been the Bible/Torah) that for Him there is no such thing as time – as we have described it as being; that because He is (simply defined, actually by Himself) I AM, then it would make sense to my reasoning mind, that to Him all simply IS; there is not yesterday or tomorrow, there is only NOW.
Much has hit the bookshelves these past several years about living in the NOW, being present in the MOMENT. Can it be that time simply is; that there is no division, no past nor future, that all simply is and is going on simultaneously at one “time”? I think this is a very real possibility and that if I look to my left or my right (is there even a left or right?) I will see me as a baby and turning me as a teenager and then as a young woman; get the picture? Is it possible that my journey in various stages of growth (again, evokes another question, “What is growth?”) are happening simultaneously or even better they all co-exist at the same time; somewhat like looking at a group photograph that you’ve doctored and input various images of who you are as you change.
Time and change and evolution and growth and history; what are these? Are they but descriptors we’ve attributed to them using language? Is it our language that has caused the confusion? Certainly when you label a person, i.e. you are a doctor, we somehow limit who they are, yet the description is a good thing, but can be a bad thing, because we are saying to them that the word “doctor” describes their totality.
If I remove the word “time” from my vocabulary what will remain? Will there be a nothingness, a void, or will it remove the walls that I’ve built by the use of the word time? I think the latter will happen, that the walls will be removed (perhaps the veil that Yahshua spoke of with one of his last living breaths) and all will simply BE, just as our Abba, YHWH, our Creator simply is I AM.
Problem is, how do you remove time from existence and what will be? Given the direction we are currently headed in as human kind, can the results be any more devastating than what we are rapidly tumbling towards? I somehow doubt it for if we keep going this route, there will be no human kind to even think, to be or to measure time. Our “time” as we’ve chosen to define it, will be up; finito!
The solution, perhaps, as simple as it may sound (though for me extremely difficult and challenging – but not impossible – to employ) is to live in the moment I am in, considering and living as though it is my totality of time.
Ask yourself this question, as I now ask myself, “If this moment was the totality of your time, would you be doing, thinking, saying or being what you are now doing, thinking, saying or being?” Then (for me) I need to get up off this chair, away from this computer and get out there a live the treasure of time, the moment, the now!
