We are all accustomed to living by different kinds of time. Daylight saving time or standard time. This or that zone time. City time or railroad time. In the theory of relativity even duration of time is affected by the speed at which we are traveling.
There is a more important time difference than any of these, that between God's time and mortals' time. Referring to this difference in Miscellaneous Writings, Mrs. Eddy says, "According to my calendar, God's time and mortals' differ."Mis., p. 117 Our health and well-being largely depend on an appreciation of just what this difference is and how we can live by God's time.
"How long, Lord?" Ps. 79:5 Most human beings at one time or another, passing through some profound experience, have felt these or similar words welling up from deep within them. Even those who have largely lost trust in a power greater than themselves have spoken these words. Even those who feel that they have lost this trust altogether or that they never had it. On such occasions the first need is often a perception of God's time and of how completely it overrules mortals' time.
