Whatever It Is....I Do Not Know.....But I Do Know This....The 'Tick Tick Tick' Will End

               I have an opportunity....fairly regularly....to say the blessing at dinner with some elderly folks. That's it....a thirty second to maybe one-minute prayer. I do not want to blow those thirty to sixty seconds....for it is all that I have with them. On the positive side....and I would like you to understand this....a lot can be said in a thirty second prayer! So I find time before the dinner to walk by myself and ask God for words to say.
               For a few moments tonight I was stymied. We're talking years of these dinners folks....and I thank God that I always come up with something that is unusual to say.....in hope that the prayer might stir something within them. When this subject came to my mind tonight I knew that it would suffice.
               I began by thanking God for the meal that He has provided....and I said something like this...."Lord....if I look at the second hand on my watch....it will be moving.....for nothing can stop time. We live in time as a fish lives in water. Being frail humans...when we think of heaven....and time passing....thousand of years....we can think it boring....even in heaven with God....our limited minds cannot put into perspective the concept of days and months and years and thousand of years. And when we think of hell.....we cannot understand punishment for a million years for twenty years of rebellion on earth. But your word Lord tells us....(if we desire to know)....that time is created....just as we are....and that whatever eternity is in heaven....it is not time as we live in now....and when we are with you....and can finally see what we will live in....we will see that it is so very fair and wonderful!"
                I have posted on this topic a few times over the years....because I feel that most unbelievers.....although they do not do this consciously....let this concept of thousands upon thousands of years confuse and discourage them. When we do find out what God and His mighty angels live in....this thing called eternity....it will surely make so much sense....that we will be so thankful that God did not permit us to be bound up with questions here on earth that we have no capability to understand. So I praise Him today....for His mercies....and for the perfection of all His ways and designs!