The Clock

Danny Hillis is not a clockmaker, but he wants to build a clock.

It is not a standard clock but a 10,000-year clock.

Hillis is a computer engineer. He has seen countless lives lived by only looking at the immediate. Businesses plan around quarterly profits, and people pursue the completed checkbox on their to-do list.

“I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years,” says Hillis.

The point is to raise a question. “Are we living in a way to see past our lifetimes?”

It’s not an inventor’s question, but the Creator’s question. What are you searching for?

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13–14)

A clock ticks for all mankind. Yet, God’s clock moves not to days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It pulses with the tick of eternity.

Which clock governs your time and life?