In the 1960s The Byrds had a Top Hit with their song Turn, Turn, Turn– based on this verse from The Bible: ‘There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven.’ Ecclesiastes 3:1 – you can hear it here.

If you have read Narnia (and I hope you have) you would have noticed that all the stories have a different sense of time.  For example, in the Lion Witch the Wardrobe, CS Lewis sends the children to Narnia where they stayed for 15 to20 years – long enough to grow into adult kings and queens – but then when they return to their original lives no time has elapsed at all.

I’ve been thinking about this recently: dwelling on the fact that when God created the Earth and mankind, he also created Time.  It is quite difficult to imagine a point at which time did not exist, but before God created it there wasn’t Time! and if you travel to Narnia time is different!

So, like everything that is created, Time is a gift from God – it’s a gift, I would suggest, to be used not only for enjoyment but also for growth, repentance, to learn about Him and His love. We have been given Time to discover: to use the experience of our lives to grow into the people that God wants, designed us to be.