Time is the life grid that we all exist within and our lives are laid out in this grid of time. Everything is defined by it, our daily schedules; our children’s development; the number of years we have experience in a given profession. When you think about it, every aspect of our life is defined by time. It defines our existence and it is what governs our perception of our future.
During our life, what kind of impact do we have on the world around us? We define our existence and our meaning by what influence we had on the world during our brief encounter with time here on earth. In our minds we are in a race against time, to find our true meaning and purpose, and to fill the inner emptiness with that elusive substance called success. But if we are honest with ourselves, success is something deeper than monetary gain. It is something of the heart, for you can gain the whole world and still be empty inside.
Just imagine that you are on a train traveling across country. As you travel, you enjoy the scenery and can only see whatever is in the train and outside your window. Other people who are on the train can share what they see, but you are very limited because you can only see what you can see. Our experience of life here on earth is very similar. We, the human race, are traveling through life and all that we can see is bound by this capsule of time that we are traveling within.
Now let’s change our perspective to that of God’s. God is not bound by time as we experience it; He is able to see the whole time continuum. He created the beginning and He created the end. Imagine, if you will, that you are high above the train you were traveling on. The higher you go the more of the train you see. You can see where the train started and where it will end. If you are not restricted to the confines of the train, then you can see all that has been and all that will be.
The human race is traveling down a track and many do not have a clear picture as to where we have been or where we are going. They would rather speculate about senseless theories than believe in the reality of God, and that the earth and the heavens are the product of intelligent design.
DNA, the genetic code, the unimaginable complexities of the simple cell – are all unfathomable and incomprehensible in our understanding. We can continue to discover hidden secrets of the complex system of the world, but we are simply putting pieces together and discovering things that God put in place when we were just a thought in His mind. Did you ever ponder that when God created Adam and Eve, they were already of mature age? An age where God was able to walk and talk with them and give them the responsibility to subdue and have dominion over the earth? What our minds are unable to comprehend is that God sees the beginning and the end. He is able to create something that has the full balance and stability that only time can give.
I am not saying that the earth is a mere few thousand years old, as some in the religious community claim; I do believe that the earth and the heavens are billions and billions of years old, if not older. But what I am saying is that to argue this point is useless. On the one hand what God created has endured the span of time necessary for life to be where it is, and on the other hand God could have created the heavens and the earth much later than has been thought, mature and ancient. My point is this: God knows the delicate balance necessary for humanity to exist within this span of time that we exist here on earth. If the sun was any hotter, or if the moon was not in perfect orbit around the earth, we would not be able to exist. There are innumerable factors to our existence here on earth.
The development of a star is something that takes hundreds of thousands, and even millions of years and there are billions and billions of stars. I will give you a very quick story on how a star is formed. Imagine out in space a clear nebula. This will be a place where 10 hydrogen atoms are in the space the size of a cube of sugar. In contrast, the air we breathe here on earth contains 30 billion billion atoms in the space the size of a cube of sugar. The light from the universe has been flowing through this nebula unobstructed for a very long time. But because the universe is circular it moves ever so slowly in a wave kind of a motion. As this wave hits this clear nebula the atoms go from basking in the light equally to suddenly some of them are shifted and the light is obstructed and they begin to cool down. As this happens they get closer and closer to each other and suddenly light can no longer travel through the molecules and a mass of condensed hydrogen appear and this mass has weight. All matter has gravity.
It is the law of nature that everything must support its own weight, and in space how this happens is that space puts pressure on any mass demanding that it supports its weight. Under the intensity of its own gravity the mass becomes smaller squeezing the matter to higher pressure and density. Most of the time in nature, pressure and temperature go together. In this case when the temperature at the center reaches 10 million degrees, hydrogen burning is ignited and a star is born.
I wanted to tell you this story because this happens over millions of years. And as this process happens out in space it creates all the elements that the world and universe are made up of. For example, when Hydrogen ignites the ash of Hydrogen is Helium, the ash of Helium is Carbon, the ash of Carbon is Oxygen, and the ash of Oxygen is Silicon and so on. So it takes millions and millions of years for one star to go through all of the stages in order for all of these elements to be. What do you think God has been doing before He created man? He was preparing the heavens and the elements so that when the time was right He could bring us into being.
God’s love for us is beyond anything that we can comprehend. I guess the question is, is this about God or is it about you? If it is about Him then we were created by Him, for Him, and our purpose is to surrender to His will and be His child as He intended. If it’s about you then you will be lost in a sea of wonder, wondering how you can solve the mysteries of life and find purpose.
The one thing God does not have is our time. We must choose to give Him our time; He will not take it from us. We must willingly give Him our time and this fulfills our purpose – to commit our lives to Him. Psalms 37:3-5 “Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness, delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.”
God is good!
