The word 'Incident' means 'an event or happening'. We can then qualify the event as either expected, or unexpected. Sometimes it is strange, sometimes the occurrence is sudden. At certain times an incident is referred to as an accident. One thing is certain however, at every point in time, something is happening. All of the time.
Let me share a little experience with you. It happened more than two decades ago. I was very young; a few years older than a toddler. My aunty called out my name from the kitchen asking what time it was. I stood in front of the wall clock in our sitting room and I said loud to her 'The time is one'o clock. It is moving… it is moving. The time is two now. It is moving… now it is three…'. I continued that way until she came right beside me. She asked quietly 'which hand are you watching?' Of course you know by now which hand I was watching. I was watching the seconds-hand. That day, Auntie Titi taught me the basics of time telling. You see, years after that experience I have not forgotten. I have learned several things from that pre-school lesson by Auntie Titi. I have learned that like the seconds-hand of the clock, I should spend time by keeping my hands busy. Today, from that experience I will be sharing that; in life, something happens all the time. And this is the hand we ignore most in time telling. Only in watching athletes on the track do we sometimes appreciate the seconds of the clock. Yet there are micro-seconds; what we often call 'split-of-a-second'.
Time. That is what differentiates here from the here-after. If we cannot handle Time, just how will we handle Eternity? Many have not grasped the concept of Eternity, because they are still struggling with the understanding of Time. Moses taught us to pray 'Teach us to number our days; that we may gain a heart of wisdom'. (Psalms 90:12). Paul admonished us several years after saying 'See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise; redeeming the time because the days are evil'. (Ephesians 5:15-16). It appears that those who would be considered wise in Eternity are those who understood Time while on earth.
The man acclaimed to be the wisest man that would ever walk the earth, King Solomon wrote so much about Time. He said 'To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven' (Ecclesiastes 3:1). He seems to be saying that, here under heaven (that is, on earth) time is everything. I will be at the risk of misquoting him if I do not explain further. Tell me one thing that can ever happen here on earth outside time? Or is there anything you can do outside time? In fact, for it to happen at all, time is involved. Nothing can ever bypass time into occurrence. Absolutely nothing. The space and the stage for every incident on earth is Time. At the moment, I am writing this piece; at the moment you are reading it, the time has changed. One write-up, different times. There is time for everything (or event), every purpose (or act), and for every man.
Oh my! There is time for every man. For instance, Solomon started by saying in Ecclesiastes 3: 2 there is 'a time to be born, and a time to die'. And between the time to be born and to die, what is there? Time. Call it 'the time to live', if you like. The 'time to live' is like the seconds-hand. Tick-tock, tick-tock goes the time to live. This is the one I need to track. The Scriptures told us of a tribe in Israel who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do (1 Chronicles 12:32). Now every tribe had its own skill, but the most gifted of men will still lose if he misses his time. Look at a farmer, no matter how skilled; if he does not gather in summer, and he sleeps during harvest as Proverbs 10:5 desribes, he will say like it was said in Jeremiah 8:19 'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved'. What will save the farmer is the right action at the right time. Nothing else works.
It is true what has been said severally that every man has equal time. Twenty four hours make one day everywhere. But truer is the saying that 'every man has enough time'. We do not all live to be a hundred, and some may even exceed that mark. But you have got enough time to do what you are here to do. And it does not matter how long or how short it is. Jesus was allotted time -infinitesimal compared with Eternity on earth. Thirty-three years on earth was enough time for Jesus to do what it takes to save humanity for eternity. How old are you? I know for sure we do not have all the control. Things happen and it is as though your time is set back. Even then, I dare say to you, you have got what it takes within your time. Man has little or no control over the time to be born and the time to die. But if we still have no say over the time to live, then what is so special about being a little lower than the angels? I will share with you what can give you the minimum control you need to maximize your time.
Do you operate your time under Chance or Judgment? We will go in-depth in the series that follow.
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