Daily Dose 3: Earth Time in Eternal Time

Since that first creative act, the Lord has dealt with His human creations within the context of time. Consider some commands and promises tied to time. We are told to:

• number our days,
• thank God for our daily bread,
• consider the days of our youth,
• not let the sun go down on our wrath,
• recognize the appointed times for every purpose (and often seemingly contradictory purposes) under heaven.

Yet underlying the earthly time the Lord has prepared for us, is the throb of His endless time—eternity—the time we are admonished to neither neglect nor ignore even as we operate in earth time.

Eternity and Temporal Time

Thus, Scripture informs us about eternal time as well as earth time.

• One of His days is like a thousand of our years.
• The extent of our earthly time is nothing but a vapor, quickly dissipated, in the light of His time.
• The greatest blessing of life (Heaven) and its greatest horror (Hell) exist beyond the constraints of earth time and dwell in the realm of His eternal time.

Wisdom using earth time is wrapped together with wisdom about eternal time. If we are going to be successful with our day by day time, we need to live in ways that demonstrate we understand how our life time is resting within His eternal time.

For that, we need to know more about the Lord and about ourselves.