Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. (Genesis 1:14-15)

Everyone Gets The Same

Before the fourth day of creation, light existed without the glowing sun or sparkling stars. God placed lights in the universe in the firmament to divide the day from the night. In creation, the Creator established time. Days were separated before the fourth day, but the order of time with days and years was established with the placement of the heavenly beings. God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. He ordained that time would be divided by days, weeks, months, and years. The first man created died at the age of 930, as determined by time.

Everything has continued as God created it since the fourth day of creation. The sun rises in the east and disappears beyond the western horizon. Stars fill the night sky, declaring the glory of God. The moon soothes the night with its soft reflection of the brilliant sun. All that Adam and Eve gazed upon in the heavenly skies remain in the same orbit with each generation. Adam and Eve were given twenty-four hours with each passing day. They enjoyed weeks together, which became months and years. The names of days and months have changed over the centuries, but the rotation of heavenly orbs remains the same.

There is one constant that has remained since the creation of Adam. All humanity shares the same amount of time within a day. The ordination of the planets to regulate time remains unchanged. There are twenty-four hours in a day. The days of man multiply to determine his age. These constants are the same for everyone, anywhere, and at any time. Noah had the same amount of time in a day as someone would have in one thousand years. Everywhere in the world, everyone has the same number of hours. There are 1,440 minutes in a day. That number remains unchanged since Adam. This works out to 86,400 seconds per day. Everyone has the same amount of time.

The remarkable thing about time is that it has never been a matter of volume (which is always the same) but the amount of energy one expels within the confines of what God has given. William Penn said, “Time is what we want most, but what alas we use worst.” Baltasar Gracián observed, “All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.” What excuse can a man give that time is wasted? He has the same amount of time as everyone. An equal amount of time is given to each individual every day. What makes life fruitful is the proper exercise of what has been given by God to all men.

Throughout the scriptures, the word of the Lord warns against wasting time. The certainty of time is that it is fleeting. Time is not eternal. Eternity is without end, but time is governed by the rotations of the heavenly bodies that will one day be destroyed. How a man uses the time given to him determines the outcome of his life and his eternal home. A wasted life is taking the gift of God and failing to use it to its full potential. Complaining about not having enough time is a contradiction of the established order that all men have. Everyone has the same amount of time. What they do with that time is what measures life and eternity. What time is it?