Issue #3, 2023
Shalom from Jerusalem,
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God is not limited by time
One of the main reasons that we can completely trust God is our absolute assurance that He knows the future (Isa. 42:9; 46:9-10; Jer. 1:5; John 6:6; 13:19; Acts 15:18). In fact, since He exists outside of time – in what we call "eternity" – all of time is present before Him, and when the Bible states that God knows the end from the beginning, it is speaking to us in a language we can understand. With God there is no past, no present or future, as time does not exist in eternity. All of time exists before God – at the same time!
Yet we do live in time, and face the reality of having to deal with our past, cope with our present and not know what will happen in our future. Often when we are stuck in a crisis, we plead with God to intervene as that crisis seems very desperate to us. But it may not be desperate enough for what the Lord is trying to teach us, and so He does not intervene just yet. I hope the following short teaching encourages us all to trust in Him and wait patiently for His perfect timing – both when it comes to answering our prayers and when it comes in every event in our lives…