Good Morning, there is snow on the ground! Every snowfall feels like a renewal of the world to me. However, we cannot cover up the sins of this world with a little snow. Like the rainbow, a nice snowfall serves as a reminder of God’s promise that one day this world that is stained by sin will be made anew. Does it seem as though God is counting the revolutions of this planet until he reaches some unimaginable number? “Whew, 140 gazillion revolutions, I thought it would never get there! Next time I’m making a faster planet…” No, set your mind at ease, our God is not limited to or bound in any way to the way we check off the days in his creation. The prophets and Jesus himself often told of both near and far future events in the same paragraph just as if God saw it all at once. I think that is true, God sees all of creation from start to finish, Genesis to Revelation, laid out before him, no gaps, no unknowns. How then can we presume to have freewill? Perhaps time is simply a journey that we all must take through a course that we cannot see. If we give our life to Jesus, then he guides us along the right path to come back to him. Those who cling to their own life in the world will walk a path that seems straight to them, but that continues straight to destruction and the second death. Now someone in the world who reads that last statement might think that we somehow wish that upon them with a feeling of superiority, ready with an “I told you so.” God wants all to be saved and we grow to want the same thing as our walk with Jesus becomes closer by the day. “As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. (2 Peter 1:3, NLT)
May your walk in Christ glorify Him more each day.
Bucky
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