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Your calendar on the wall locates you in time before you even read it. Before paper versions, societies built Stonehenge and others to track the solstices. The need to know where you are in time is older than recorded history.
A Time for Everything — “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 ESV) What season are you in right now, and what does it require of you?
Know the Time — Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. (Romans 13:11 ESV) What have you been sleeping through and it’s time to wake up?
Spiritual Move: Fixed-Hour Prayer — This is the ancient practice of pausing at set times throughout the day to pray. Set an alarm or use the natural breaks of morning, midday, and evening as prompts to stop, reorient, and return. The day has a rhythm; this practice learns to follow it. “Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules.” (Psalm 119:164 ESV)