I learned how to tell time when I was a small child. I had to break that bad habit when I no longer believed in 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

We are already living our eternal life. It is "time" you understand that. This is only possible when our spirit is set free from the bonds that our mind and flesh place on it. Yes, you might be keeping yourself from truly enjoying your eternal life today.

My kids can explain eternity to you. Ask them what it means when I say "I'll be there a minute." Ask them what it means when the alarm clock goes off and my wife says she's getting up.

Since the beginning, man has been measuring increments of the stuff we call time. Almost everyone wears a watch. (I don't) There are clocks in almost every room in our houses. We awaken to the sound of an alarm clock. Radio stations give the correct local time around every 15 minutes. We have a clock on the dash in our cars. Our cell phones have clocks. Even our computers have internal clocks. It seems impossible to escape the shackles of time.

For some strange reason, our government created a special agency to track time. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses an cesium clock that is accurate to within 1 second in 20 Million years. I have often wondered, when they began using this clock, what did they use to set it?

We find references to time in the Bible.
The phrase "In the beginning" is referenced in 16 verses in the King James version of the Bible.
The word "Eternal" is found in 36 verses.
Eternity is found in 1 verse.
"ever and ever" - 41 verses
Time - 373 verses
Times - 110 verses
Season - 50 verses
Seasons - 11 verses

Man's short lifespan is referenced as being very short, even a shadow.
Job 14:1-2, Psalms 144:4, Job 8:9, 1 Chronicles 29:15, etc.

I once heard a definition that time is the stuff that keeps everything from happening all at once. Why do we separate events into compartments of time? We insist on defining our existence using a timeline that has a beginning and an end, but is that reality or contrived reality?

Measure all things according to God's word.
II Timothy 3:16-17
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

By the scriptures, we know that God is in us and we in Him. God is eternal. What does that make us?

God has no beginning and no end. Yet, we attempt to understand eternity based on our definition of time. We cannot break out of the thought pattern of measuring things from start to finish, beginning to end, east to west, birth to death. How can we believe in eternity when we refuse to allow it to exist?

Here is an example that might help you understand eternity.

Take a bottle of food coloring and dip the point of a pin in it. Examine it closely though a magnifying glass or microscope. That miniscule droplet of coloring contains everything you have ever done in your life. Every thought, action and emotion that you have ever had is contained in a drop of stain so small, you can barely see it. Your beginning and end are on the point of that pin.

Next, take the point of that pin and dip it in the ocean, letting the food coloring dissolve. Now imagine the ocean not only covering the face of the earth, but filling the entire universe. Consider the fact that every molecule of every drop in that watery expanse is either touching or has touched every other molecule at one time or another. There is no perceivable point where one drop stops and another begins. They are one existence, blended within an infinite, fluid expanse. They all exist at the same time in eternity. Now imagine that infinite fluid expanse flowing through the veins of Almighty God. You are one with the Creator of the universe.
Eternity! Well, almost.

Deja vu is having the feeling that you have experienced the present moment in time before. Many people claim to have experienced this "phenomenon". Yeah? So? Trying to understand that is like trying to segment a perceived wisp in time from that droplet of food coloring, once you have already touched it in the ocean of eternity. Did it exist? No, it Does exist. So do the actions in your past and future. They exist forever in eternity. Do you think Jesus ever experienced deja vu?

Time and space begin to blur.

Job 26:7
"He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."

Our Global Positioning System (GPS) uses super accurate clocks to assist us in determining our location on earth. Even our missile defense systems are guided by satellite information, based on time. It's kind of funny when you stop to think about it. God stretched north over the "empty place" and hung the earth upon "nothing" yet we demand to be confined by boundaries. We cannot be free from the bonds of time until we are also free from the bonds of space.

Clocks moving through space run slower and slower as they travel faster and faster. A clock runs properly through time, not through space. If you could propel the clock faster than the speed of light, it would cease to increment time. It could even run backwards. Time and space fold within each other.

Einstein's theory of relativity blurred the lines of time and space. Even though it was presented in 1920, scientists still have difficulty proving it with current technology. You cannot prove the existence of eternity with the limits of time.

Here is something else for you to consider. You "may" not be able to travel faster than the speed of light yet, but you cannot travel slower than the speed of light either. You are moving through time at the speed of light even if you are resting in a chair. Time and space are so interwoven they are inseparable. If you can possibly consider an infinite universe (space) then you are closer to understanding infinite time, eternity.

Eternity frightens us when we do not understand it. Because of this, we use finite time and location in an attempt to give our lives meaning. We feel secure when we can define and live within boundaries. We cannot grasp eternity because we are trapped in our own definition of time and space.

This finite understanding can hold us back from being all that God wants us to be.

You entered eternity when you became a child of the King, the Eternal One who was, and is, and is to come. You are no longer bound by this world, time or space. You have been set free to live with God for eternity...now.

Halleluiah!

Now do you see why I don't believe in time?
Don't get me started on gravity. Jesus didn't believe in it either.

- Rod

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