What is Time to You and Me?

What is Time to You and Me?

In the very Creation of man and all the cosmos that surrounds him there must have been a period called time.  However, when God created everything it was all eternal wherein there is no time or space in existence.  God is eternal and when we are called home we will also become eternal participants.  

For many people who feel left out from an easy life will ask God when they get home why they were overlooked.  The one criterion they have overlooked is eternity has no past.  Christ will guide their uncertainty into an existence that has no need for things of a past that now does not exist.  

The one thing that most people anticipate is eternity is just an extension of what they’ve lived the past 70+ years or a moment on the earth.  Isn’t it a gracious thought that there will not be arguing with another because they did something to annoy us, or we won’t hear about another shooting and who is to blame?  If we indeed could assume the reason God created us was not to test our ability to sainthood, but by becoming saints we would be the very product of what love is all about.

Can you imagine existing with other souls who do not hate each other and have the desire to share themselves with you because Christ lives within each one not just spiritually but physically as well.  That premise is not the current feeling of too many people on earth.  The very reason there are too many doubters is a lack of knowing God as who he IS.  

Free Will, as precious as it was meant to be to seek God, has become the one criterion that blinded the love of God from the eyes of so many greedy hands that will get nothing but disappointment and regret.  Carrying a crucifix or wearing one around your neck might just be what each one needs.  For if we adhere to that type of austerity it may remind us of why Christ went to Calvary and said in a voice so meaningful, “It is Finished.”  (Jn 19: 30).  The Incarnation has closed the final chapter of God’s Forgiveness.

There is one theme that exists which we should hear about and take that message wherever we go; Christ assumed humanity so that when he died on the Cross, it was the exact pain and suffering that man might experience as well.  Jesus took on the personhood of humanity in order that not one human could say, “Well he is God and never felt the pain we go through.”  Wrong!  He is of two natures; human and divine from the moment he entered the womb of his Mother until the last drop of Precious Blood was spent from his Body.  He suffered and died as you and I would yet he never sinned.  That was the ultimate act of a Creator who loved us so much that he deigned to accept death because it was our sin that he assumed on the Cross and delivered the last nail into the heart of Satan.

Ralph B. Hathaway