| We all live our lives by the clock whether we wish this | | | | where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but |
| to be the case or not. It is what it is and most times it | | | | canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: |
| is essential to keep our metabolism in check. However | | | | so is every one that is born of the Spirit.' |
| time should not control our lives, we should control time. | | | | In the first example we learn how God tells us when it |
| The spiritual world teaches us how we can control | | | | is time to stay put and when it is time to move |
| time especially the time that matters for the things that | | | | forward. In the second example we learn how to |
| we desire. | | | | understand when God is telling us to do either. As an |
| There is a period for everything in the spiritual world, a | | | | example, in our daily lives we change jobs or move |
| time for joy, for happiness, a time to mourn, for tears | | | | house for financial reasons. We decide to do most |
| and the many other facets in life. This is one way of | | | | things when we are comfortable with the financial and |
| spiritually understanding time, there is another side to | | | | emotional implications. In the spiritual world this rules are |
| this which is spiritually knowing when things have | | | | governed by the spiritual implications as instructed by |
| changed or are about to change. There is also a way | | | | God. For example, moving house for the sole purpose |
| of telling spiritually when we ought to do something | | | | of an increase or decrease in our finances could have |
| about this change or wait for instruction during this time. | | | | drastic consequences either way. The good fortune of |
| The basis for learning how to spiritually tell time is | | | | an increase in wages by any means does not |
| explained below by two very important examples in | | | | guarantee that in the near future we won't loose |
| the bible. | | | | everything. However the guarantee that regardless of |
| The first can be found in the Old Testament when the | | | | what happens we made the right decision comes |
| Children of Israel had been rescued from the hands of | | | | through our faith. The same is applicable in the reverse |
| the Egyptians and traveled through the wilderness to | | | | situation. Moving house solely as a result of lose in |
| the promised land. They were guided by a cloud that | | | | finances doesn't guarantee safety. Things could |
| covered the tabernacle by day and a fire that shown | | | | immediately get better and we regret our decision or |
| on it by night. As it is written, 'And when the cloud was | | | | worse with dire consequences. |
| taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the | | | | To tell time spiritually is to listen to an inner voice, our |
| children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the | | | | instincts and the belief we have in God. Scripture |
| cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their | | | | teaches us how to hear the voice of God in what we |
| tents. At the commandment of the Lord the children of | | | | do and what we feel and whether it is through |
| Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord | | | | longsuffering or jubilation we can sense the presence |
| they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the | | | | of God if we have faith in him. Faith in God is a |
| tabernacle they rested in their tents.' | | | | guarantee for our actions and the decisions we make |
| The second instance of understanding how to | | | | in life and it is by this same faith that we are able to |
| spiritually tell time is captured in these words by our | | | | spiritually tell time. |
| Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 'The wind bloweth | | | | |