Time

 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day                                                      II Peter 3:8

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts  Isaiah 55:8-9

I am a time driven kind of guy. I have certain routines, and I am blessed with a good sense of time. For example, after decades of working in one-hour time slots, I have a very good sense of when an hour has elapsed. My counseling sessions are set for one hour in length, and I can manage that time pretty well in terms of getting to the issues we need to discuss, then wrapping up in the space of one hour.  

At the same time, I am time bound- to hours, days, weeks, months, years, etc., and I think of it in a linear way. I have a clear sense of past, present, and future, but I have no understanding of eternity. I think only God has the line on that one. In fact, if I try to think of eternity, I kind of get freaked out, because I cannot truly fathom it. Frankly, it’s kind of scary to think about.

Now consider a God who lives in the past, present and future all at the same time. One whose day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like a day. He sees all at the same time, while we humans are time bound and unable to understand time like God does.

So, when we ask God to intervene in our life, his time perspective is completely different than ours. Ours time sense is limited, and his is unlimited. I need to remind myself that God’s perspective is so much more comprehensive than mine. He does not operate on my time table, nor is he limited to time.

So, my job is to trust that his ways are higher than mine, and to recognize my limitations. That is a concept that I can better understand!

Prayer: Lord, your ways are higher than ours! Help keep us mindful of that, Amen.