(first posted July 21, 2017)
What has God been up to for so long?
God has been around ‘forever’. "Forever" isn’t easy to measure or easily imagine, so if one had to quantify it in terms of numbers, could one reasonably say for anything between many, many millions of years to millions of millennia and beyond?
Yet Man, according to Biblical records, was created only around 6,000 years ago. Give or take as many thousands as you like, in terms of God's history, that's hardly a wink in time - and ever so recently, at that. So what has He been doing for all that time before Mankind was created on Earth? God is busy and He doesn't tire - so He must have been busy then too. It's pretty mind-boggling. He is creative. There must be so much more out there than we can ever imagine! How much we can look forward to being a part of ....one day!
If one considers how short our six thousand-odd years must be in God's experience of time, and how much must be out there, it must surely alter, in some way, our perception of our time on Earth in terms of the big picture. The 6000 years that we're talking about is the present - we are not 6000 years lost somewhere in the midst of all that time - we are a current project, designed after all those years of experience and experiences, fresh and new in His scheme of things. We weren't a mistake made long ago. Mankind on Earth is a current project! We were designed to be a part of all that lies out there one day.
That’s awesome, isn't it.......?
We seem to have to endure our sufferings endlessly; but if we can take heart in our vision of what is out there, perhaps we can endure what seems to take forever with a little more courage. What lies beyond is really so much more than we can imagine. It’ll be worth it
No comments:
Post a Comment