(Friends: during this series,
the messages may frequently be longer than usual due to the subject matter. Thanks for your patience, and I think
you will find the considerations interesting, and hopefully, helpful in our walk
with the Lord. Glen)
Part 27 – “The Timeless –
In Time”
In the person of His Son, the God who
“inhabiteth eternity” entered into the realm of space and time.
“Great is the mystery
of godliness; God was manifest in the flesh” (I Timothy 3:16).
From the boundless
freedom of the timeless into the realm of past, present and future, with its
limitations – this is the sacrifice of love made by the Lord Jesus Christ for
the eternal redemption of the faithful.
What this involved in the heart and mind of an infinite Being, we do not
know. We can only be sure that the
price was inestimable, and that whatever the cost, the Lord Jesus paid it with
an abundantly willing heart based on the greatness of His devotion to us.
We are a race
dominated by the clock. Our lives
dash from birth to death, and too many days seem composed of too few hours for
the accomplishing of those things we need and desire to do. “For what is your life? It is even a
vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:14).
Indeed, in the first twinkling
“moment” of passing from this temporal realm into the everlasting, believers
will feel sublime relief from the burden imposed upon us by the constraints and
restraints of time. The past often
taunts us, the future threatens, and the present flees before we have
opportunity to experience more than a brief sample of the moment. The older we get, the more we realize
the “vanishing vapor” of a life in which time seemed to offer much in the
beginning, but then raced away before we could fully grasp its fleeting
promise.
Our Savior took upon
Himself this overwhelming burden of time.
It savagely and unmercifully crushed Him, but then He arose into that
glory so beautifully described by the writer of Hebrews as “the power of an
endless life” (Hebrews 7:16). Just
as wonderfully, He graces us with the same deliverance from the temporal when we
believe, as the Spirit of the everlasting enters into the depths of our
being. There, in the born again
spirits of the redeemed, the “endless life” of the timeless Christ provides
increasing awareness and experience of a dimension without temporal limits. We may not be able to verbally express
the wonder, nor do we understand it.
However, the believer knows deeply within that the Lord Jesus has
delivered him from the awful weight of time by taking upon Himself its ultimate
consequence. And, in the moment of
such blessed relief and awed remembrance, we worship.
We fast approach a “day”
when there will be no days. There
will be no clocks and no calendars in Heaven. May the thought bless us with
anticipation of an experience of peace made possible by the Prince of
peace. May it even more bless us
with the wonder of so great salvation provided by so great a Savior, the
timeless One who entered time in order to deliver us from time.
“There should be time no
longer.”
(Revelation 10:6)
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