In the year 2000 Forbes Magazine featured a special edition on a single topic that it called "the biggest issue of our age -- time." The editors wrote, "We've beaten, or at least stymied, most of humanity's monsters: disease, climate, geography, and memory. But time still defeats us. Lately its victories seem more complete than ever. Those timesaving inventions of the last half-century have somehow turned on us. We now hold cell phone meetings in traffic jams, and 24-7 has become the most terrifying phrase in modern life." 

While many of us experience time as a source of distress, the Bible clearly presents time as a gift. It is, in fact, the only means by which we can receive the grace of God. Time and space are God's chosen media for self-revelation -- as evidenced by the arrival of Je…