One of my sons had an interesting statement about time. He said it is merely a social construct to provide a reference for everything in life. If you lived alone on an island you would never need time. I agreed and disagreed. Yes, everything is relative to a specific time, but even on an island there is night and day, seasons of the year for weather that repeats each year (in terms of temperature and/or precipitation), position of stars and planets, growth of plants and fruits, and I could go on. You are never alone. You interact with many things that have a cycle and gives a time reference. God, the creator of time, also operates that way.
Deuteronomy 1:3, Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him as commandments to them.
God said 40 years and on the dot the people of Israel were being prepared by Moses to enter the promised land. The writings are very detailed to ensure we, the readers, have good records to review the interventions of God in history (or, the Great History Maker). Nothing slips God.
Deuteronomy 1:8, See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.
Moses recounts all that happened to remind the people of Israel how they came to this point. God's promise was clear but they did not trust in God. They only looked at their own capabilites.
Do you trust the The Great History and Time Maker, or in yourself, who needs to live in a "time construct"? Father, let me trust you.
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