That was only yesterday, as best I now recall.
What has happened to all of those endless days of my life that have now seemingly evaporated into nothing? What do they all mean? What is their sum? I see my physical body fading fast, now etched with scars too numerous to count, face weary, white hair along with the deep brown. I know there must be more.
Yet, some days I have no answers, I have only questions. Today is one of those days.
I asked the questions in An Uncommon Love Found in “This Hallowed Ground”, “How does God consider time and our lives here on earth? What sacred measure does He use?“
I had no answers then and have no answers still. Only God knows.
So for today, I leave the answers to God because I know those things I now do not know, He will tell me when. When the time comes. In His time.
As Solomon wisely said in Ecclesiastes 3:11:
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.“
God has given man an eternal perspective so that he can look beyond the routine of life. Nevertheless, He has not revealed all of life’s mysteries to man.
But some day God will. At the end of one of these seemingly unending days when eternity really comes He will. Until then I trust in Him with my questions because I know He has all the answers I need. And I thank God that He does.
I’ve tried to find some perspective on time as it relates to eternity with little success. I was stumped at your comment “when eternity begins”. My first thought was, “hasn’t eternity already began for we believers”? Fascinating post Dee.
I wanted to make sure you got Corry’s E-mail and to let you know we’re continuing in prayer for you all.
Eternity is beyond my comprehension.
I often have the same questions as you do and no answers. But God does and He knows my reason for being. If I had all the answers, there would be no faith and therefor no hope.
I do look forward to the answers though:-)
Our prayers are with y’all.
God’s Grace.
Kc -
Yes, of course, I agree. Eternity begins for each of us the moment we – what shall I say – are born? are given our souls from God? Those are two of the quetions I cannot answer, as I referenced in my Hallowed Ground story.
I mulled over that sentence as I wrote it and pondered how to re-write it to convey my thoughts there. Which were in trying to distinguish between individual days in our lives here on earth (that sometimes seem extraordinarily slow, while at others extraordinarily fast) with what I think of now, from this perspective, as eternity and how it might be.
Sorry for any confusion.
Well Dee… why don’t you write on a difficult subject next time! I think we can understand that in comparison this life is short, a vapor, something that doesn’t last. Eternity is none of those things.
But you are right about trust. We do trust ‘in Him’.
thanks for the reminder.
The time between sorrow and joy seems to move faster.
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