In part one of this post, I discussed how through the eternal-ness of God, He is always present; in other words, He is who He says He was - "I AM."
The question is never "What is God going to do?" or the statement ever "I'm excited to see what God will do." Because throughout human history and until our time is no more, God is. Since God is outside of time, He is never waiting to do something, He is always just doing, because there is no time past nor time to come with God, there is only right now. It's very confusing to think about, but in short, our yesterday and our tomorrow is God's today. But even more so amazing, is that God's "today" has never replaced a yesterday and it never yields to a tomorrow. God is ever-present at any given time.
I ended the previous post by concluding how small, yet how significant my / your / our lives are in light of the mysteriousness and vastness of eternity. That may not mean much coming from me, but let me try to explain this so it grabs hold of your heart like it did mine:
The Bible tells us that because God loved man so much, He sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins - He died so that we might spend eternity with Him. If eternity is ever-present, then that's not just saying that [through our faith in Christ] when we die and leave our earthly bodies we get the privilege of spending forever with God...that means God wants to be with us now - our eternity with Him begins here, at this very moment. An almighty God, who breathes creation, cares so much about me that He sees me right now, and is always fully focusing Himself on me. That doesn't mean that someone else is losing attention from God while He cares for me, because being outside of our realm of time, He is never cornered by deadlines. He is never distracted from those important moments in my life when it seems that I need Him most, He is always ready NOW...whenever NOW may be...for whomever NOW is for.
But that's not the end of it...or maybe I should say, the beginning...
If God has always been, that means there was no beginning to Him - He is the Alpha. And if God is the beginning, along with His perfect will, that means that He's always had me on His mind. All that makes sense when you think about a perfect Love.
In saying all of this, it's easy to see how small and irrelevant our lives could be. But at a deeper understanding, it's obvious to me how important we are to a perfect God with a perfect love - or rather - who is perfect love. Knowing that I've always been on the mind of an eternal, perfect, loving God brings a whole new sense of significance and meaning to my life than before the revelation of this knowledge.
We know that God came to earth in the life of Jesus Christ over 2,000 years ago. My prayer is that God continues to reveal the mysteries of who He is and the greatness about Him in a way that compels us to live as though we know He's present now...still 2,000 years later. But not just in the way that we've always been told, but in a way that revives our slumbering spirits. In a way that's personal. In a way that's undeniable. Our God - Eternal.
Think about it...
