TIME OR ETERNITY

TIME OR ETERNITY (Part 1)

WARNING: IF YOU ARE NOT A BELIEVER IN THE GOD OF THE BIBLE, DON'T READ THIS! IT WILL EITHER ANGER YOU ( and isn't there enough already to make you angry?), CONFUSE YOU, OR SEEM RIDICULOUS TO YOU.

My friend, Joni Sunderland, was sharing with me last week some insights on the "water into wine" episode in the book of John. (More on that, later.)

My thoughts returned to the days, before I was changed, when I was working my way through that very book. I think I will begin that journey again.

Slowly.

What Joni had shared, was that this time thing, time, that we base everything on was also part of the creation.

We, as beings of flesh and blood, are bound by time, controlled by time, limited by time, at the mercy of time.

Waiting for a meal.

Trying to pay off a loan.

Making a living.

Waiting for Christmas.

Elections.

Traveling.

Vacations....

Everything has a reference point. Time.

It doesn't stop. No matter how much you want it to, it just will not stop.

"I need more time!"

Sorry.

So, we are trapped in this progression of seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, decades, centuries....

Things wear out. Time.

We get older, we get old. We wear out. Time.

But, in the beginning, before time,
with God, was the Word,
the Maker of all things,
the carrier of life,
eternal life,
the life that would become the light for all mankind,
a light that would shine in a darkness,
one that would not be overpowered by the darkness.

He was not limited by time, because He was outside of time.

We couldn't see him, because we were enclosed in that envelope he had created.
Time.

The only way we could see Him,

He had to open the envelope.

John 1: 1-5
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.

In Him was Life, and that Life was the light of all mankind.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.