The Ageless Now 1.1

Ageless Now


Growing up, I had a hard time when trying to understand what I would be doing after my body died and went to heaven, “forever”. What in the world would I do, forever? My parents told me that I would be praising and worshiping God the whole time. Well, maybe it is just my carnal mind, but do that forever? I mean really, that is a long, long time.

But even though that bugged me what bothered me more was how was it that God, who was going to be there forever, had already been around forever. I was able to come to grips with forevermore but not with foreverbefore. How could God have been around all this time and yet still be around forever? How old is God anyway?

I heard someone once give this comparison about the length of forever. If a sparrow picked up a grain of earth and flew to the other side of the galaxy, then deposited it on some distant planet, flew back and continued this trek until the whole world was moved, in that amount of time it would just be becoming mornings first day in Heaven. Wow, is that cool or what? Does it give you any idea of the vastness of forever? Does it help you consider the awesomeness of our time with God or even worse the sheer terror of the length of time one might have to spend in hell without God? But even this analogy niggles my niggle.

The problem with forever and always is the same problem I have with all the other words we use to describe this thought: eternity, everlasting, evermore. They all deal with time. They are all a long, long time.

Even God, in his revelation of Jesus Christ given to John, describes Himself in terms of time when he says in Revelation,

Revelation 22:13
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Concerning the things of this world and all its happenings, God is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. But what about before the world began and what about after the world is over?

Take a look at this.

Matthew 22:31-33
31. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
32. I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
33. And when the multitude heard [this], they were astonished at his doctrine.

And so was I. This short passage was an eye opening, mind fix for me. This concept unlocks the mystery of a timeless God. So far, every term we have used is directly connected with time. It is how we connect. It is where we live. But God does not live in time, he is not constricted by the pouring of sand through the hourglass. He is not a God of hours, minutes or seconds. He is the God of the living. This is the same concept we talked about when we discussed Faith. We can only have hope while we are alive. After we are dead there is no more ability to have hope. God is not the God of the dead because we do not have the ability to believe in him or serve him after we are dead. Only while we are alive do we have this opportunity. And it is only at one point in our lives that this opportunity exists. Now. Only now can we serve God, not earlier, that is the past, not later, that is the future, only now. We can plan to serve God later and we may have served him in the past but only now, while we are living can serving him be an option. This is why God is not the God of the dead but of the living.