Time

When we talk about time we quite often categorise it as past, present or future. But looking at it logically, there can only be past and future. The smaller we go with the measurement unit, minutes down to seconds or even milliseconds - the less logical it is to talk about time as present. The moment you referred to as present, is in fact past.

One thing we all have in common is that we are only here for a limited time. Time will run out for all of us because we all die. Looked at that way time is a bit bleak, but not to God. It doesn’t mean anything much to Him.

In the Bible we read - “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”  (2 Peter 3:8 NIV)

In fact God created time for us. Time is totally meaningless to a being who has lived and will live forever. God also wants time to be meaningless for us.

Perhaps the best-known verse in God’s Bible is: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”   (John 3:16 NIV)

To have eternal life is to live forever, when earth’s time in this order runs out and Jesus returns to set up on this earth that forever Kingdom planned by his Father.

In the Bible you can find the antidote to the bleakness of time running out - all the details we need are there.