Daily Dose 2: The First Time

Life serves us once-in-a-lifetime vacations and once-in-a-lifetime tornadoes, dream opportunities and nightmare responsibilities. Life sears indelible memories in the flash of a second, yet in another flash, serves up an event that will never be consciously recalled again.  Is there a constant in the variety of events life serves to us? At least one—every event has consumed some of the commodity called Time.

Time is spent on automatic and subconscious events like breathing and routine and repetitive events like sleeping. Time is spent on events that demand—yea, CLAMOR for immediate attention (a crying baby or the boss’s deadline) and events so unassuming they can be neglected easily, often for years (personal Bible study, reading to a child, or taking time to talk with a friend).

Where did the time that holds life’s events come from?

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

“And the evening and the morning were the first day.”

Scripture (“the record of revelations”) opens with the time word, “beginning.” Something new was opening or starting. God existed before the earth’s creation, so it was not His beginning. In the beginning of what, did God create the heaven and the earth?

Time in Creation

Might it not be the beginning of time as we on earth know it? Time was at least part of the first creation project when a non-sun light was created to push aside the expanse of darkness and set in motion the earliest time cycle, evening and morning, night and day.

Thus the cycle of evening and morning became our first measure of time, directly from God’s mind, part of His perfect creation. Each modern moment is the progeny of that moment when eternity revealed temporal as part of its expanse.

Does not this truth breathe value into today’s moments? Grand vistas of contemplation tumbling from God’s mouth into generation after generation of homes built within the time He set in motion “in the beginning.”