A calendar is a system of fixing the divisions of time, as years, months, weeks, and days. Civil life operates on this schedule.
One of the articles in this month's magazine is called "Time". We are quite sure that our readers will need to concentrate much when they read and perhaps re-read it, but we believe it will be worthwhile to try to understand as much as possible.
For an example, we quote from the second paragraph: "As events only proceed from God, 'I Am' to Him never changes. He is in Himself always. Events come from His will, and are relative, not absolute.”
If we can learn that our God is the eternal God, that He is infinite, we have surely learned something very great. Other articles in this issue are from Hebrews and in chapter 3, verse 4, we read, "He that built all things is God." Our God is not only infinite, but also He is the Creator of all things. "All things were created by Him, and for Him: and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist." Col. 1:16, 1716For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Colossians 1:16‑17).
The Christian, of course, lives in time as well as everyone else, but we have eternal life and soon we shall be in eternity.
We now date time as the year 1991. That is supposed to be the number of years since Christ came the first time. The Bible is a very interesting and practical book. In chapter 3 of Ecclesiastes, time is mentioned 31 times. You may want to read it.
Peter also refers frequently to time. He speaks of "the time of your sojourning here," and of the "last times," and of "the rest of his time," and then of "the time past of our life.”
What are you and I doing with the time given to us? A very straightforward exhortation is found in 2 Cor. 5:1515And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. (2 Corinthians 5:15). It says, "They which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again.”
C. Buchanan