Issue 851 – Magnificent Maple – September 11, 2022
Yesterday, Kathy and I visited the Fraser Valley Heritage Park in Mission. It’s quite a nice park and well worth visiting.
We saw this huge, magnificent maple tree there and had to take some photos. I love trees with character, and this old maple has it. On the side opposite me is a small passage, large enough for a child to crawl through.
I don’t know how old this tree is, but it has stood there for many years. It was likely here even back in the days when the property was St. Mary’s Indian Residential School. It has seen a lot of changes over its lifespan.
Countless people have enjoyed the maple’s shade, and many have climbed it or tried to. While trees exist in time, I don’t believe they are conscious of time in the same sense we are.
Asking a tree about time makes as much sense as expecting a sunbeam in a forest to wait for you to get to it. Time and waiting don’t matter to them.
People are conscious of time, and we seem to spend much of our time waiting or wishing time would hurry up. Children want to be teens, who want to be adults. Working people want to be old enough to retire.
We wait for medical appointments and for the mail to arrive. We wait in line for movies or other entertainment. We wait for traffic. One source says we spend 6-9 months of our lives waiting.
Christians wait to meet our saviour. Sometimes we ask our saviour to wait on His return until friends and families are saved. We want to meet Him now, but also want Him to delay. It is something we are often double-minded about.
For the Lord, there is no waiting. For time to happen, we need space, matter and change. God isn’t subject to any of those things. He exists outside of time as we know it.
He doesn’t have deadlines, and He never has to worry because His timing is always perfect. God knew us fully before we were born, and He knows us fully. I don’t doubt that we are already with Him in His economy, although we cannot perceive that yet.
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 2 Peter 3:8-9
We can trust that He has things under total control while we wait. Being outside of time, He can intervene when He wishes, and nothing escapes his eye.
We may or may not see it in this life, but justice will prevail, all rights will be wronged, and we will be with the Lord. In God’s eyes, it is already an accomplished fact.
Hold on as we wait, my dear friends. The battle is already won, and we have overcome with Christ.
Be blessed
Hallelu Yah
Praise God
Kevin
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