One Minute

       As I start this post, we have one whole minute to leave in order to catch my son’s bus without a stressful drive.  We have five minutes if we hurry the trip a bit (speeding L ) and the bus isn’t early, and ten minutes before leaving for his alternative bus stop.  Problem is my alarm didn’t go off (long, boring story) and his obviously wasn’t set, so I just woke him up five minutes ago.  Gotta go help if I can.  Be back soon.

        Guess for you this wasn’t a long wait, but it’s actually been over two hours since I had to drive and pick up some groceries.  But you couldn’t tell, could you.  For you it was as if I was never gone.  It reminds me of finding an interesting thought on the internet the other day.  “Time constraints are a human trait.”  Hmmm… I thought, is that really true?  Does God not feel the limits or restrictions of time at all?  Is God really free of all time restraints?  We know He has been here in the beginning, and He will always be here (Gen. 1:1).

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity…  Is. 57:15

Now unto the King eternal, immortal… God…  1Tm. 1:17

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.  Rev. 22:13 

We also know God has no limits: in power (Rev. 19:6), knowledge (Is. 55:8,9; Rom. 11:33), or presence (Jer. 23:24; Ps. 139:7-10).  With no limits in those areas, He likely has no limits in or with time.  (or logically He wouldn’t be omnipotent)  Still, does He feel the passing of time as we do?

      We know He has a plan and purpose that will be fulfilled on the earth.*  “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.” (Rev. 21:3)  Being with us permanently is all He ever wanted, but God is holy and so must now, due to man’s sin, first reconcile us to Himself by the blood of Jesus Christ (Col. 1:20).  Does He ever get frustrated waiting?  We get impatient in a 15 min. lineup, or a two hour wait in the doctor’s office, but for God it’s been over 6000 years- and that’s a long time to wait!

       Sure the Lord’s been busy working in our lives in the meantime; in the world, in the universe too, but surely not in the way He desired from the start.  Since God is all powerful he could push His timing up if He wanted, but the Bible says He’s a patient guy (2Pt. 3:9; Num. 14:18)- unlike most of us, and He’s wise enough to let it all happen at the RIGHT time, and He knows when that is because He is all knowing.

       So God waits for that right time, and only He knows it- and it will be done in the timing He has set.*  But still, does He get frustrated waiting?  Never found anything in the Bible to indicate that to me, but I’m sure situations, attitudes and actions of mankind frustrate the Lord now and again.  As for Him feeling the time restraints- I just don’t think it’s the same for Him as it is for us- as the following scriptures indicate:

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.  Ps. 90:4

…one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  2Pt. 3:8

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old… But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.  Ps. 102:25-27

Blessed be the Almighty God

                       who is limitless and to whom time has no constraints! 

*Many plans are in a man's mind, but it is the Lord's purpose for him that will stand. Pr. 19: 21 AMP  also Is. 14:24

…God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.  Is. 45:18