If there is to be a future where do we begin?

If there is to be a future where do we begin?

As we look to the future of life as we understand it our minds will need to recall from where we began.  As each one may want to be like God who created us, the object of creation, from a human questioning must always stand before each one in a discerning mode. 

Theology teaches us that God always IS.  He had no beginning from a human manner of distinguishing the difference between past and future.  The term Was cannot be used within the concept of tense by describing past, present, or future.  We place these verb tenses to describe something that occurred regarding when they were.  So when speaking about our Creator God we cannot interject a past tense since it never was.

Read through the scriptures and see how often the use of “I AM” occurs when God describes himself.  In Psalm 135 the hymn begins and ends with an invitation to praise God.  “O Lord, your name is forever, your renown, from age to age!  (Ps 135: 13).  “But, said Moses to God, when I go to the Israelites and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, if they ask me What is his name?  What am I to tell them?  God replied, “I am who am”.  Then he added, This is what you shall tell the Israelites:  I AM sent me to you.”  (Ex 3: 13 - 14).  

The words I AM are the substitute for Yahweh as a substitute out of respect for God.  Delving into the deeper meaning of I AM puts God into a present tense, as everything in the realm of God and heaven has no past. 

Now we look into the essence of this mystery where since God always IS he will always be eternally.  The Incarnation of Jesus brings divinity and humanity together as a union called “Hypostatic” which was a future declaration until Christ rose from the dead.   With his Ascension into heaven human beings will reign forever with the Trinity of God.  With our own resurrection all that was in our past now disappears from reality and our future becomes our present existence with almighty God, forever.  It shall be an eternal presence with God.  Our future will not be one that is away from us, since the present entity is all we shall know and understand.       

Let us redress the question of If there is a future where do we begin?  It now will relate that we begin with a resurrected body and dwell with God in his presence without what was no longer concerns us.  It shall be an everlasting glory as in the vision John saw coming out of heaven.

It was the holy city Jerusalem coming down from God prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with the human race.”  (Rv 21:  2 -3).

Ralph B. Hathaway