Things Hard to Understand

One of the things that fascinates me is the mystical and hard-to-understand. Some people like everything described down to a t. They like their ducks in a row, they like to understand the logistics of everything.
I like things that make sense. Honestly, I do. But there is something very attractive about the Unseen, something comforting about things beyond me, something secure about things bigger than me.
Time is one of these things.
We Europeans persist in seeing time as a line. In fact, we have that word - timeline.

Past______________Present______________Future

And yet...
We understand day and night from the sun, which is spherical. We understand months from the moon, which spherical. We understand seasons and years from the planets and stars, which are spherical. If you are like me and are one of these people that picture things and also learned time on an analogue clock, then the passing of minutes and hours is circular. The moon circles the earth. The earth circles the sun.
You may, like me, have seen a diagram like this, depicting the eternity of God.

<----Eternity Past----------------------Eternity Future---->

God's existence is a never ending line... or is it?
Hey, face the irony of it. We've put God's timelessness on a TIMELINE. We have taken an Eternal Spirit Being and subjected Him to the narrowest field a human can conceive - two dimensions. Eternity is not time without beginning or end. It is timeLESS.

Seasons repeat themselves.
History, they say, repeats itself.
Maybe time looks like this




I personally believe this is what makes questions like election and predestination such difficult ones for some people. They struggle to believe that in the past

Past_______here_______Present________________Future

God ordained everything that would happen to them

Past____________Present___here___and___here____Future


We live in a world of height, length, and width. Time is the fourth dimension. So, even a 3D sphere does not do it justice. And we take the eternity of God and force it to submit to a degrading two dimensional line.


Rom 11:33-36 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.