Do you have days that seem to last forever? Do you have days that seem to fly by? Are there weeks that drag on or are gone too quick? Are there special events you look forward to that feel as though they will never occur? What if I told you, it is the same with God?
We all experience days that seem go on and on and on. It may be a day at work. Perhaps we don’t have enough to do, and we are bored. Maybe there is a long-running task that takes multiple days to finish. Those days cause us to glance at the clock every few minutes.
On the other hand, days can fly by. We are busy all day long. We may be working on several to-do’s or perhaps just one. Our focus is intense and before we know it, a couple of hours have passed. We can’t believe the day is already over. We may even feel as though we didn’t get enough done during the day.
Though God executes his plan as he desires, days can be long and almost non-existent. God can work every minute detail in a day and yet work out his plan over centuries. It can be a challenge for us to think in terms of centuries. It can be difficult to wrap our minds around the fact that God exists outside of time. For him, time is not linear but occurs all at once.
I like how C. S. Lewis describes it in his book Mere Christianity. He tells us to lay a piece of paper on a table. Draw a straight line on the paper. Then put a dot on the line. The paper is God. The line is time. The dot is our lifespan. We all live inside of God and in time. God sees all of time at once, yet he is right there beside us in our moment of need.
We don’t have to understand everything about God. What we should understand is God is always at work. God sees all of history at the same time, yet he is involved in the minute details of our lives. This is just another reason for us to trust that God has our best interest at heart. It is another reason to trust God’s promises.
I pray we all know that God sees all of history. I pray we trust in his promises. I pray each one of us understand God is at work in our lives in the same way he is at work in all of history. Know that you live in God. Trust in God’s promises. Trust God cares for you. Believe God is at work for you.
2 Peter 3:8 But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.
Marty Pressey 