God is so ahead of us
I do not know what tomorrow holds, but i will trust in him who has been waiting for me there since yesterday.
God the out-liver of creation
Psalm 102:24–27 ESV
“O my God,” I say, “take me not away in the midst of my days— you whose years endure throughout all generations!” Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, but you are the same, and your years have no end.
God is more enduring than mountains
• The Rockies are believed to still be growing year after year. though no one is sure just how fast or slow that is, because it’s growing slow enough to make it hard to measure. Meanwhile, the Appalachians are eroding in some spots are much as a at about a meter every year. Even though the eroding effects of entropy fade mountains from the face of the planet
God is more persistent than the sky
• The reason the atmosphere doesn’t just float away from the planet is because gravity is strong enough to keep the air in a tight bubble around our earth. Even if gravity were to fail, god would still be there
God the highest vantage point of history
Isaiah 46:9–10 ESV
remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
Other’s might say what could happen in the future, but only one can make declarations as god does.
God is the One and Only highest vantage point. He is aware of all time and at all time. notice that in a life or death situation, Daniel emphasizes that it’s not by his future vision, but by God’s declarations that the prophetic dream is interpreted to Neb.
Daniel 2:10–12 ESV
The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who can meet the king’s demand, for no great and powerful king has asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean. The thing that the king asks is difficult, and no one can show it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.” Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
Daniel 2:17–18 ESV
Then Daniel went to his house and made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2:20 ESV
Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.
Daniel 2:25–26 ESV
Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste and said thus to him: “I have found among the exiles from Judah a man who will make known to the king the interpretation.” The king declared to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its interpretation?”
Daniel 2:28 ESV
but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:
God alone, he is the one and only, the one that sees the effect before even the very cause.
God the Maker of time
Genesis declares that god created not just the earth but the days of the week. God created time. he created a distinction of the passing of days and nights. We know that god makes time because he marks the passing of days, not by the sun and moon, which hadn’t even been made yet, but by his own word on he first 3 days. the sun and moon were not set to rule the day and the night until day 4!
God the Master of time
Time is not just the passing of moments, it’s also the primary ingredient for causality. cause and effect require the lapse of distinct and continuous moments. FO some this has brought up an important question: if god can see all time, if he made history and declares the future, does this imply destiny? does free will even exist?
I don’t know.
What i do know is that God act’s in parrallel with human will, even when that will is evil. Let’s see an example in Genesis:
English Standard Version Chapter 50
But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?
20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
21 So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
God rules over time, knowing the end from the start. He declares how things will pan out even on a global scale. He even made time itself, and yet: God’s plans and our plans run, not in series, but not in parallel either. Because his will intersects with human choosing.
God is so ahead of us. I think of Daniel who prayed to god on the day that King Darius made his law.
I do not know what tomorrow holds, but i will trust in him who has been waiting for me there since yesterday.
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