“God has made everything beautiful IN ITS TIME. Also, HE HAS PUT ETERNITY IN THEIR HEARTS, except that no one can FIND OUT the work that God does FROM BEGINNING TO END.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
Everything about us as humans is TIME BASED, the date we are born, the date we turn 16 and get our drivers license, the date we get married, and the date we die. God says about all this everything is “beautiful in its time.” God is “OUTSIDE OF TIME” viewing all this as panorama, He can see the END FROM THE BEGINNING. “Declaring THE END from THE BEGINNING, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’” (Isaiah 46:10) The very first Hebrew word in the Bible is “Bereshit” which basically means “The Son of God is destroyed BY HIS OWN HAND on the cross.” I have wondered, why I this amazing discovery not talked about, and I remembered this is the Hebrew language and Jewish scholars do not view CHRIST AS THE MESSIAH and therefore do not have open eyes, the spread of this knowledge has been limited.
So God know all about us, “O LORD, you have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. I can NEVER escape from your Spirit! I can NEVER get away from your presence! You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit them together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! YOU WERE THERE while I was being formed in utter seclusion! YOU SAW ME BEFORE I WAS BORN and scheduled EACH DAY of my life before I began to breathe. EVERY DAY was recorded in your book!” (Psalms 139:1-2, 7, 13-16)
From the beginning of God’s created time He knows what He has planned for EACH OF US, but He allows us to choose if we want to FOLLOW AND OBEY HIM or DO OUR OWN THING. Just how many WILL CHOOSE TO FOLLOW GOD? In the illustration Jesus gives us about the end, “…the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.” (Matthew 25:1) Jesus tells us that HALF OF THEM were wise and took EXTRA OIL for their lamps and HALF were foolish and took NO OIL for their lamps. OIL represents the presence of the Holy Spirit in one’s life indicating A RELATIONSHIP with the Lord. When the Lord came TO CALL THEM UP to meet Him the ones with oil tried to get things right but were too late, “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ But He answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I DO NOT KNOW YOU.’ “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.” (Matthew 25:11-13)
So, make sure to make yourself ready, IT JUST TAKES AN “I’M SORRY LORD PLEASE FORGIVE ME.”
Your Personal Pastor -Bill Stockham