Timeless

Today's blog is for entertainment purposes only!!

Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have a timeline like God? God has always existed eternally outside of time and is not subject to its limitations. Colossians 1:17 - "And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist."  Psalm 90:2 -- Even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God." 

It seems like a lot our pressure in our lives has to do with meeting timelines. We only have so much time to accomplish this or that. Humans were the ones that created time measuring devices. Whether it was the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks or Romans who first established calendars or time pieces -- it was established by humans!!!

The other day, I received a text from my daughter. She was asking me how old her grandma was this year. I let her know. She said, "Oh good, you have longevity in your genetics." I asked her why she was worrying about longevity. She had told me she had a coworker whose Mom had passed away at 70. She told me that she started thinking how I was 65 and that would mean, if the same timeline was for me, I only had 5 years left. I had to remind her that I'm only promised today and sometimes even that can be cut short. I told her that she shouldn't worry about tomorrow, because today has enough in it already. She told me how horrible it would be to lose me so soon. I told her not to think about it until the day comes and she needs to enjoy the time we have today. I reminded her how blessed I am and that she can be assured that when the day does happen, I'm going straight into the arms of Jesus. I told her all our lives are in the control of our Father in heaven. No one knows the time or date. It's too bad that we can't just move forward without a period of time.

I think we get an example of how life can be timeless, when you haven't been in the same circle of friends  or relatives for years, but when the weddings and funerals happen, you have these periodic reunions and you pick up where you left off and catch up as to where your life is at that moment. The only thing you may notice is how they may look a little different than the last time you were together. For the most part, the love is still there and maybe even grown stronger in absence of one another.

I think there are a lot of timelines we could do without. For instance, when you should become independent from your parents. These days, that age has kind of shifted. Many of our Generation Z's are having a hard time becoming independent, which wasn't the case for the boomers (like myself) who are now their parents. I remember when my son called me a Boomer like it was a negative thing. He got a lecture from me about our innovative thinkers. You could know the level of intelligence of each individual through the process of evaluating their knowledge rather than telling them what grade level they should be at by a particular age. We all learn differently right? It's easy to compare where they should be, because there is a timeline. The same goes for when they should get married or start a family. Wouldn't it be great if it just organically happened as their life progressed without the peer pressures. Maybe instead of calling it a timeline it can be called a life process. Because we have already established a timeline here, we have become organized to follow a timeline. Obviously, it would be chaotic if we changed from timelines to another measurement of a life process.

As children, do you remember living according to timelines? I mostly remember being transported from point A to point B by a bunch of adults. My days seemed to last longer, because I wasn't tied to time constraints. Things just moved forward.

Another example of when life seems timeless, is when all of sudden you realize 5, 10, 15, 20, etc. years have passed by and you ask yourself, "When did all that time pass? It's been that long already?" I'm blown away that I just had my 65th birthday and I have children that are now almost 42, 35 and soon to be 27. When did that happen? Where did all that "time" go? And is age part of the time equation? Why not be toward the end of the life process or on a sliding scale process if your life seems in the middle somewhere?  Instead of talking about specific ages, I could say my early life process was a bit traumatic.

We could save theologians a lot of brain calculations of them trying to figure out when Jesus will be coming according to timelines. They wouldn't have had to stand on hills and be disappointed that He didn't return on that particular erroneous calculation. Because of time, we have labeled generations in accordance to birth years. Why are we so consumed by putting a label on everything and everyone? (That's another blog.) Instead of thinking about the Rapture or Second Coming, we could just live like it would happen anywhere at any moment in the life process. 

When we read the scriptures, we see that ages had already been written by the inspired authors. The timelines of early man had already been established, but what if they hadn't been? Time doesn't dictate our purpose on earth. We have a beginning and an end. We live within our "dash". For those of us who believe in God and the plan of salvation that would still move forward. Along with living our life processes out in accordance to God's will for our lives. We would still have biblical instruction, free will and the ability to make choices on whether you want to follow Christ or have a different belief system or lifestyle outside of Christianity. The requirements and signs would still be established as written in the Bible. Everyone would still need to hear about the Gospel before Jesus's return. Why do we keep thinking we have time? Because we live in accordance to time.

Wouldn't you say we really have a desire to live forever as well? That's because that was in the original plan when we were created. We were supposed to live forever. Ecclesiastes 3:11 "Also, he has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end."  I'm so glad that we have a Savior who loves us so much, that he died for everyone's sinful state in this fallen world. He died for us all, because he wants us to live in the timeless realm of heaven as originally intended.