Know God's Purpose TODAY! (Part 4)

I anticipate an objection, this objection:

“Olatunde, you assume time is linear.  What if it is cyclical?  What if our focus shouldn’t be on beginnings and endings, but on repeating patterns?”

I see no real issue or difference in the discovery of God’s purpose in connection to time.

In fact, in the first and second blogs, I assume a repeating pattern or cycle throughout our lives, repeated beginnings and endings.

Some assume that “Westerners” are time slaves, while “Easterners” just “go with the flow.”  Of course, some Easterners and Westerners may be like this.  But Easterners understand beginnings and endings, while westerners also understand going with the flow.

I personally view time as a gift from God, slices of eternity if you will.  Time can be a friend and servant.  I can get “lost in time,” so that time becomes timeless.  I’m sure you’ve experienced this.  Yet I also realize there must be limits in time usage. 

But here is the thing for me:  I experience time by the clock, AND by the FEELING of the moment.  Like if I’m in deep intimate conversation.  The connection in one sense stops time, and in another redefines time. 

Time comes to mean the beginning and ending of an intimate connection.  Sometimes this coincides with the clock.  Sometimes it doesn’t. 

Clocks are instruments, not time itself.

Both the clock and the feel, both linear and circular perspectives of time, reveal God’s purpose. 

In this way, time is God’s gift to us.