God’s creation of time helps us to learn to think as God thinks. This in turn helps us to act as God acts. Thinking and acting like God means that we are being true to our Creator.
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (Genesis 1:27).
Time runs in a straight line. Nothing can stop it. Time is dependable.
Do you see God’s way of thinking and acting in this description?
We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds. “At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity. When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars” (Psalms 75:1–3).
Just like time, God is steady and dependable. He wants us to possess these same characteristics as well. Time is one of God’s creations that is good (Genesis 1:31).
…He (God) has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
Though unable to view time from God’s perspective, God has enabled the spirit of man to conceive of eternity, to apprehend the everlasting, to long for eternal life. We long to live beyond our short time on this earth.
However, it often makes us uncomfortable thinking about the end of our time on earth, or our death. This is because of the uncertainty of how our death may come, but the Good News of Jesus extends beyond time promising life in eternity with our Creator!
While on this earth and during the span of our lifetime, we have the opportunity to hear and respond to the Good News that Jesus offers.
For God so loved the world, that He gave his only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).