Issue 697 – Time – March 28, 2022
Time is a strange thing. It is measurable, yet our perceptions of it can vary greatly.
I can talk of events from “just the other day” and realize that they happened months or years ago. I remember looking forward to the turn of the millennium in school, and it seemed so far away.
It seems strange to think that it was more than 20 years ago we were concerned about the Y2K bug. Yet whole generations have been born that have never heard of it.
It has been 45 years since Kathy and I walked down the aisle. How can that be? I was barely 19; now, I am nearing 65 with six grandchildren. Where did it all go?
Good times can fly by instantly, while bad times can drag on seemingly forever.
When I rolled the truck in 2019, the events of that few moments seemed to stretch forever. It is hard to believe that it happened more than two years ago.
Time is a strange commodity. We spend it, we invest it, and we waste it. We want time to speed up for some things and slow down for others. For some, the span between life and death seems a great span and, for others, a quick blur.
Fortunately, we serve a God who is outside of this whole time thing. Being time-bound mortal creations that can be hard for us to comprehend, yet the Scriptures proclaim it.
Scripture tells us He was there before the beginning.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. John 1:1-2
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” Revelation 1:8
He was not only there at the beginning of time, but He will also still be there when all of the time has passed. When the last grain of sand drops through the hourglass of time as we know it, when the universe folds in on itself, and when everything we know has passed away, He will still be there and will still be God.
Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, but you are the same, and your years have no end. The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you. Psalm 102:25-28
There is great comfort in the fact that no matter what happens in the brief span of our lives on earth (even 120 years is a blink of the eye compared to eternity), the same God who was there at the beginning will be there for us at the end.
For those who have accepted Christ, the suffering of this life will quickly fade into nothingness when we spend eternity with Father. Our greatest joys will seem like sorrows compared to eternity with Him.
There will be an eternity of punishment for sin for those who reject Him. What a tragedy that will be.
When all is said and done, our obsession with time will seem silly because time will fade as surely as the sun rises in the morning.
Until next time, praise God for the fact that He has prepared a place for you in heaven with Him. Thank Him that the worst of times will soon be behind us, and the best of time is yet to come.
Hallelu Yah (Praise God)
Be blessed.
Kevin.
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Soli Deo Gloria (for the glory of God alone.)
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