God Is Never in a Rush

While we see today closely, remember yesterday vaguely, and anticipate tomorrow anxiously, God sees every single day of history as clearly as another.  While each of those days have enough to overwhelm us, the eternity of God provides a grounding like no other. 

“Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever.  Amen” (Jude 24-25).  God’s eternal nature is the stabilizing force that we so desperately need.  He didn’t need angels or men to provide him glory, he laid hold of it from eternity past! 

“Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever.  Amen” (Jude 24-25).  God’s eternal nature is the stabilizing force that we so desperately need.  He didn’t need angels or men to provide him glory, he laid hold of it from eternity past! 

Since God can see every day of eternity clearly, he is also able to process the events of today in context within the scope of eternity. 

Like the kayaker fighting through surging river currents unable to see anything other than the current rapid, we can only process the current day’s challenges.  Yet from God’s vantage point, he can see the current we made it through, the current in which we are currently struggling, and the current around the bend of which we are still yet unaware. 

God sees the whole river when we can only see the current rapid.

“The LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King” (Jer. 10:10).  As the truly only everlasting one, God is not only unsurprised by the current events, but he is working among all of them and still hold fast to his plan because he sees eternity’s entirety ever before him.

Since he keeps eternity in perspective, God will never rush. 

There is no need to hurry with God.  He’s never late.  You can travel eternity back or eternity forwards, and you will never find a picture of a frantic God.  Since he is not constrained by time, he will never spastically attempt to resolve his agenda.  God alone actually inhabits eternity (Isa. 57:15).  Why would he need to rush if he holds time in his hand untouched by it?  A thousand years are like a day to him (Ps. 90:4; 2 Pet. 3:8).

You can have peace today; God has an eternal plan. And he’s not in a rush. His plan is perfectly on time.