In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1
One of the great benefits of making this the first sentence of our lives is how it brings the reality of God’s greatness into the center of our awareness. Today, let’s consider that God was “in the beginning...” He is eternal, not bound by time. God created time, the time we know as sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour, etc. But He does not live within time, is not bound by it.
One of the great benefits of making this the first sentence of our lives is how it brings the reality of God’s greatness into the center of our awareness. Today, let’s consider that God was “in the beginning...” He is eternal, not bound by time. God created time, the time we know as sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour, etc. But He does not live within time, is not bound by it.
This is one of the more
comforting realities about our Lord! Time
is one of our cruelest masters, most precious resources, and greatest
challenges. And He is above it all! This is why we start this year (there’s that
time master again!) with Great Beginnings
– we entrust the first sentence of our lives, our beginnings, our priorities,
the ordering of our lives, to the One who had no beginning! He is Lord over time! He is not in a hurry, He is not worried, He
is never early or late or short on time.
And yet…in the Person of Jesus, God entered time and even became subject
to it. Jesus was conceived, born, lived
for a certain number of years, and most amazingly hung on a Roman cross for six
hours. He understands time and all of
its pressures. And now He reigns and
lives again above it!
Lord, sometimes it feels like time is killing me! I desperately need You, the One, the only One
above time, to comfort and empower me to live in time! I surrender my time to you! Please help me to number my days, so that I
may gain a heart of wisdom.
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