The effect time has on all humans has created the science of homeostasis.
The idea was first put forth by French physiologist Claude Bernard in 1865.
Bernard discovered that all living organisms have internal "multiple dynamic
equilibria adjustment and regulation mechanisms." In simple terms, that
means we all have an internal clock.
Homeostasis is that inner knowledge of time or our ability to define a day
with or without a clock or a watch. People confined in places where no light
or other stimuli could be seen, adapted to life in 24 hour cycles without
any knowledge of day and night or what hour of the day it was.
Everyone knows what osmosis is, but only one in ten thousand know that
reverse osmosis is called plasmolysis and even fewer understand how it
works. In the study of homeostasis (the effect time has on man) there has
been no word ever introduced like plasmolysis to help explain the effect man
has on time.
In fact only a few people in our entire civilization have ever conceded that
man can significantly affect the outcome of time on his own world. Those who
are seen as prophets and seers are saddled with the task of both seeing the
times and then proclaiming to a busy and distracted world just what that
time is.
Just as internal stimuli (drugs, alcohol) can change or warp an individual's
sense of time as in going out for an evening in the local pub in Cleveland
and waking up the next morning in Tijuana Mexico, the internal clock can be
affected by excessive external stimuli.
Modern distractions are too numerous to list but whether we are jogging
while listening to our favorite radio station or roaring to work on the
interstate while thinking of what we must prepare for dinner and talking
with our school aged children on a cell phone all at the same time, the
total product of all this is the same. We lose our sense of what time it
really is in our lives, our broader relationships and in our communities and
even our nation.
The external influence on the internal clock of modern man becomes
intoxication and renders us dysfunctional as a result of imbibing on endless
bottles of by the ways and the deluding drug of distraction. When someone
does accurately discern the time for us, the only question that remains is,
do we have time or will we make time to stop and listen.
A seer need not resort to statistical syllogisms to ascertain what part of
his message is being heard and what part is being ignored. Usually he needs
only to watch the trends and preoccupation of a people to see where they are
mentally focused. Jesus said ".out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh." (Mt 12:34) What people talk about the most is the shortest route
to their state of mind.
The one message I repeat the most in all of my presentations is that it is
not America's economy that is souring the grapes. Few seem to catch on, the
connection seems all too hard to believe and the gab of the hour is still
predominantly the economy. Almost every night of the week someone who is
disturbed by the present administrations stimulus and spending policies is
noting the woes of the economy and conversely supporters of the
administration are promising it will all pan out if only given time to work.
The key word here is again; time.
Failure to see the connection between a nation's immorality and its economy
is one of the greatest mistakes in inductive reasoning that any civilization
will ever make. Scriptures are replete with warnings and examples of
failures in every area of the economy that are directly tied to a nation's
moral behaviors or the lack of them.
Preoccupation with salacious behavior in media, conversation and daily
pursuits in this nation has peaked. What is common today would have created
a national blush only a few decades past. The only thing after a peak
according to the Bible is judgment. A nation or an entire civilization
brings itself into another time by ignoring this immutable fact.
When ancient Israel refused to listen to her prophets and seers they were
shocked when Prophets like Ezekiel showed up and said that they not only had
been going too far but they had pushed themselves into a change of time.
Their immorality was affecting the external aspects of their homeostatic
balance; in short they were changing their own times for the worst.
Ezekiel was sent to give them the final warnings before their dreaded
enemies, the Babylonians, were to come and crush their entire way of life.
Ezekiel said "Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and
hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast
caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore
have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all
countries." (Eze 22:4)
When we fail to see the parallels of pornography and poverty, moral collapse
and economic collapse, we have done far more than missed a point. We will
have changed the times and our national life will not be the same.
Christ was very concerned with those who failed to read the times because he
knew that everything about time as they knew it would change irreparably if
it went unnoticed. He also knew that if they missed the time of a visitation
they would not fail to miss the time of the subsequent judgments that would
ensue as a direct result.
Jesus wept over Jerusalem because the city missed the message, the Messiah
and the moment of their greatest time. "And when he was come near, he beheld
the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least
in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! But now they are
hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies
shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on
every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within
thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another." If you don't
know much about that period of history let me remind you that only a few
years from this proclamation the Roman conqueror Titus left Jerusalem in a
heap of rubble.
Jesus explained in no uncertain terms that this needless catastrophe could
have been easily avoided because the entire matter was birthed by a simple
lack of not discerning the times they were living in. He finished his
pronouncements by specifically naming the causes of the self induced
calamities. He said ".because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation."
(Lu 19:41-44)
Not discerning the time always has dire consequences and Christ often
rebuked people for their hypocrisy concerning the use of their best
cognizance for everything except discerning the time. He said "Ye
hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is
it that ye do not discern this time?" (Lu 12:56)
The New Testament alone uses the word time in over 200 verses and many of
those references have to do with someone either fully understanding or
completely missing a very important moment in time. Mans built in clock
functions in every human being on the planet, but there is a greater element
to the perception of time that is also part of homeostasis. Our collective
sense of time can determine what times we will actually live in. We can
decide whether they will be good times or bad times.
It takes no genius to discern that even our economy will be affected by our
failure to discern the times and yet that may be the least of our problems
after all. The question is simple; if all this is verily true, then what
time do you think it is?
Do you think it is a time to blab up the economy and be silent about our
unbridled licentiousness? Give us one newscaster, one pundit or one person
who has properly discerned the times and we will have started on the road to
a national recovery.
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