February 03, 2014
Making Tracks
Over the weekend our local law enforcement
nabbed a couple of evening home invaders who had just attacked an elderly
couple. The perpetrators were armed, so this was a serious manhunt, but it was
relatively short lived. It seems that the new 7-9 inches of snow lying undisturbed
on the ground, except for the men’s fresh footprints, made them easy to track
down. You just got to love it. Interestingly, sometimes we believers aren’t all
that bright either and we leave a few tracks of our own. “The sins of some men
are obvious, reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins of others
trail behind them. In the same way, good deeds are obvious,
and even those that are not cannot be hidden.” (1Tim5:24-25 NIV)
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Gail;
-----Tracks are important to us. We are stuck in a moment of time being successively passed from one tick of the clock to the next. But God’s moment is at all ticks of the clock at once. So we talk about the effect of tracks and about sins preceding and following us in order to keep the ideas understandable. But in reality, talk about tracks in fresh snow! If indeed God is unbounded by time, He will be seeing the crime on Judgment Day as much as He saw it the day it was done.
-----This leads to an interesting thought. It isn’t a thought without answer, because all thoughts have their answers in Him. Nor is it a thought destructive to Him. First, it’s idiotic to think any thought can destroy what is perfect, though some hold out hope that man’s moronic philosophies have dissolved those fibers of His perfection. Their ears are merely not big enough to hear the entirety of information, nor are their minds big enough to know what it all said. Second, when everything has an answer in what is perfect, then every answer is perfect. So I’m not afraid to ponder this thought:
-----God transcends time such that He is at all times at once. So, He’s at the beginning of whatever could be a beginning of eternity at the same time He is at the end of whatever could be an end of eternity, metaphorically speaking. And He is at all times between the two all the time. So, He is at the same time when we’ve finished ten thousand years of rejoicing in heaven as He is at the moment you performed the worst sin you‘ve ever done. While He’s savoring your praising He’s watching your wickedness. He said He would forget. How will He do that if He fills all moments of time simultaneously and experiences everything existing everywhere all at once? Forget how?
-----I know there are many reasons God had to become man in Jesus Christ. My pondering keeps pointing to it as the place of possible answer. Odder than His becoming man was His decent from the cross into Hades. He preached there. OK. But how far into there did He go? Did He go all the way to the threshold of the nether gloom? He was God there too. Did He make some attachment, some definitive point, some jailing of the very nature of evil such that the moment in which all things belonging in the lake of fire have been cast there becomes a “reset button” eradicating all imperfect things occurring before that time such that not even God will experience them?
-----God’s got an answer for that question. It may not be something He will ever share. But regardless, I am happy He sees tracks today while things need done about things being done.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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