It seems like only yesterday it was Christmas, only last week we were worried about the Y2K bug, a couple of months ago that I was getting married, and not long before that when the turn of the millennium seemed so far in the future.

Time is such a deceptive thing. Good times seem to go past in an instant; bad times seem to linger forever. There are many events that I recall the details as if they were freeze framed.

Time is a strange commodity, we spend it, we invest it and we waste it. We want time to speed up for some things and slow down for others. The span between life and death seems for some a great span and for others a quick blur.

Fortunately we serve a God who is outside of this whole time thing. 

Scripture tells us He was there before the beginning 

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 NIV

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. John 1:1-2 NIV

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:8

He was not only there at the beginning of time, He will still be there when all of time has gone by. When the last grain of sand drops through the hourglass of time as we know it, when the universe folds in on itself and when everything we know has passed away, He will still be there and will still be God.

In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. But you remain the same, and your years will never end. The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you." Psalm 102:25-28 NIV

There is great comfort in the fact that no matter what happens in the brief span of our lives on earth (even 120 years is a blink of the eye compared to eternity) the same God who was there at the beginning will be there for us at the end.

For those who have accepted Christ, the suffering of this life will quickly fade into nothingness when we spend eternity with Father. Our greatest joys will seem like sorrows compared to eternity with Him.

When all is said and done, our obsession with time will seem so silly because time will fade as surely as the sun rises in the morning.

Until next time, praise God for the fact that He has prepared a place for you in heaven with Him. Thank Him that the worst of times will soon be behind us, and the best of time is yet to come.

Be blessed. 

Darrel Mason