We seem, in our day...
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We seem, in our day, to be obsessed with time. Saunter up to any jewelry counter and you will see an unbelievable number of digital watch options. They run all the way from the simple to the complex. The simple watch will tell you only the time and the date while the complex ones can be worn under the water, or used as an alarm clock or as a stop watch. Consider, too, the mushrooming of the calendar industry over the past few years. There are railroad calendars, body-building calendars, recipe calendars, and joke calendars, just to mention a few. The clock and the calendar measure one kind of time. But there is another kind of time that can never be calculated by a clock or a calendar. This is time measured by fulfillment, moments of passage, and realization of goals accomplished. The Bible calls this kairos time and it is this kind of time being acknowledged by Jesus when he declares, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand ..." This kind of time is not determined by the positions of hands or numbers; it is an event of the mind and heart and soul.
