The Mystery of Time
As humans, we are bound by the limitations of time. Hours, days, months, years, we measure events in our lives in terms of time. Time can be an ally or a foe, depending on the situation. Throughout history, people have both suffered and benefited by the passage of time–time that moved too quickly or too slowly, depending on what exactly they were waiting for or hoping would happen.
We cannot control the passage of time. Indeed, God has determined each of our days before one of them has ever come to be, as written in Psalm 139. God has His own timetable for human history. As we watch our world today there are many times we wonder how much longer we can go on in our current state of war, strife, and seeming chaos at every turn. But God’s concept of time is vastly different that ours. He is not bound by earthly measures of time. “With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. God isn’t late with His promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining Himself on account of you, holding back the End because He doesn’t want anyone lost. He’s giving everyone space and time to repent” (2 Peter 3:8,9). We cannot possibly understand that kind of love, the love that waits, WANTS, keeps pursuing no matter how much rejection is thrown in His face, continuing to offer His very best gift to every single person who has ever lived up until their dying breath. God’s perfect timetable also includes His message of eternal life through the death and resurrection of Jesus being proclaimed throughout the whole world. His message of eternal life has always been for everyone, everywhere, and it is able to go into many more places throughout the world now than it ever has before due to modern technology.
God’s timing for the human race and our existence here on earth is known only to Him. But the longer He waits, the more opportunity people have to come to Him and the more He will rejoice over each and every one who accepts this gift and will spend eternity in heaven with Him. He WANTS everyone to come, He is pleading with every human being in order to rescue them from eternity without Him. He will not force anyone to come, however. It is up to each and every person to choose–while God still gives us time.
Faith Through the Journey 