Time

Our timeless, eternal God created time. He created time and then set us in it. He organized the days and nights, weeks and months, seasons and years all from outside time. But then He did something even more amazing.

From His everlasting throne, He gazed down unto our timeline and found the perfect point for Him to make His appearance. The stage was set and He stepped down from infinity and became finite. He entered into the world He created; He entered into time. His endless heavenly dwelling place was traded for a tiny womb of a woman He made. Through the quietness of the Holy Spirit, He was placed inside her and in that moment, for the very first time, He experienced time.

He grew. He aged. He had days where 24 hours were just not enough and days where that was too many. He felt tired and He slept for the first time. Our limitless God understood the limits of time. Why?

Did it have to be so dramatic? Couldn’t He have come to our world, redeemed us and still held on to His timelessness? Did He have to begin as a baby? Grow in a womb, experience birth, childhood, adolescence and finally adulthood. Was it necessary that He grow weary from a long day, dread a certain hour coming, or even feel the rush of arriving on time?

It truly is “God with us.” He came not only to save us, as needed at that was, He came to understand. “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses…” (Hebrews 4:15)

He came and walked with us, accomplished more than saving us and then returned to His eternal kingdom. But our timeline was not untouched by His presence. It shook and split beneath Him as evidence that He has been here. It serves as a reminder that He is aware of our limits. He knows our deadlines, our due dates and our every appointment. He is familiar with days that feel unending. He knows the patience required in waiting…waiting on the Lord. He has been there….He has been here.

With as much care as He chose His time on earth, He chose ours as well. Each minute has a purpose. Things that take but a moment on earth matter in eternity forever. Walk through the day with certainty that our inexhaustible God knows what is needed to make it through this time and more than able to provide. Find rest in the truth that our times are held in the hands of One who has been here.

“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power. Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly, yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.” Isaiah 40:28-31