But as we look at the analogue clock or watch, there is also something worth reflecting about the ticking of the second hand.
If we do some calculations, that second hand goes 60 ticks a minute, 3600 ticks an hour, 86,400 ticks a day, 604,800 ticks a week, and 31,449,600 ticks a year.
Now that is a lot of ticking. Yet that humble second-hand shows us something.
It takes one tick at a time.
We don't have to worry about how many ticks we have to accomplish in a year, or in a week, or in a day or even in a minute.
That is all taken care of by God.
What we need to do is to let love, joy, peace, patience, compassion, kindness, generosity start ticking in our lives.
That is what is meant by setting our hearts on the Kingdom of God and on His righteousness.
