What time is it?

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. - Genesis 1:1–2

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. - John 1:1–3

Time.

It is impossible for us to really understand the concept of an existence without time. We live in time; for us to try and understand what “outside of time” actually would be like is like trying to describe color to a person born blind or taste to a person with no taste buds. We might be able to make approximations, but they would be just that; they would be shadows of a thing we cannot know.

Yet that is where God lives. God lives outside of time, without time, before time, yet he is somehow in time, all of the time. Confused yet?

At the time when all that we know, feel, see, or sense had it’s beginning, God was already there. Time is a created thing, a divinely created thing, a reality that each of us lives in, and that God does not.

Let your mind play with that idea for a while. And stand in awe of a God who is so much bigger than our idea of Him.

- What does it mean that God is “outside of time.”?

- How does this reality give you hope when you are going through a time of pain that seems like it will go on forever?

- How does this give you rest in the business of world without enough time?

Peace, hope and love

Doug