A Timeless God

Fears, doubts, anxiety, loneliness, and homesickness battled against my spirit this past week. As I serve Christ overseas this summer, great fear of what the future holds has been grabbing onto my ankles trying to pull me down. My Great Protector & Truth fought off this enemy through teaching me new attributes about Himself. My sister, Britney, sent several cards for me to open this summer with different names of God on them. God has used these cards tremendously in my life in the past 2 ½ weeks.

One particular day this week, I studied in my quiet times (from Jesus Calling by Sarah Young) that I am dwelling in the presence of a timeless God in which time is not allowed to be a tyrant in my life, ticking away relentlessly in my mind. Not the dread of what this next week holds, not the length of today, and not the FUTURE. Time is NOT my master. I serve a TIMELESS GOD who is & was & always will be. As I focus on His presence, the demands of time and tasks diminish.

Then I opened up Britney’s card. It said-
“YAHWEH YIREH- The Lord Will Provide --- Genesis 22:1-14
God sees the past, present, and future. He is able to anticipate and provide for your needs. In Abraham’s case, God provided a ram. John the Baptist calls Jesus ‘the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.’ I’m praying that God will meet all of your needs according to the riches of His glory.”

God is ALREADY in every moment of our lives! He does not get there as we do and figure out what we need on the spot. He is TIMELESS, remember? He exists already in each chapter of our lives! THAT is how he anticipates our needs and meets them before we even get there.

Real life example- I had been anxious about this next week because I am house-sitting for the Dickersons while they are in Peru at a missionary conference. Well…as it turns out, my friend Elizabeth, from Tupigachi is going to come visit me for the week in Quito! The whole time I was worried about the week Ruby & Fletcher would be gone, God knew the whole time that I would not be alone! All that anxiety, for nothing! How silly it seems now to have been worried. So it is in all areas of our lives! That thing you are worried about, God is already there. He has anticipated and provided for your need already. Did I mention, God is spaceless too!?! He is everywhere at all times! So what does this say about my fear of the future of being far away when I serve a timeless and spaceless God? We do not even have human words to explain or imagine the greatness of our God. Allow that to absolutely submerge you in peace and hope!