The Ageless Now 1.2

God exists for us in that moment, between seconds, in the twinkling of an eye. He has existed and will exist every time someone’s now happens. He is the Ageless Now. Our lives pass by like film in a movie projector and we live only on what the light shines. Every frame of our lives will at one point be, now, but God being the light is eternal, always there, never changing. Eternal is the best term we have for something without beginning and end. Eternal is not always used in this fashion but remains our best word. God lives in the eternal now. It is in Him that we live and move and have our being.

Acts 17:28
For in him we live, and move, and have our being;

We move through time but God remains the same yesterday, today and forever.

Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

When God spoke during the burning bush incident, he was confronted with a question from Moses,

Exodus 3:13
And Moses said unto God, Behold, [when] I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What [is] his name? what shall I say unto them?

He did not say, “My name is Elohiym, creator of the universe”, nor “ Jehovah Jireh your provider” nor “El the almighty one”. Instead he uses the name which means “To be, to exist”.

Exodus 3:14
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

God is the God of now. He is relevant to everyone from the beginning of history to the end of the world. Every person, no matter what day and age they lived, live or will live, will experience their whole life during that one continuous moment. Now.

Let us take a look at John 3:16,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Everyone is going to perish. Everyone's body no matter how long it lives is going to die, so this verse is obviously not talking about the human body but the part of us that has the ability to commune with God. Our spirits are dead to God when we are born because of sin. But God sent His Son to our world to save us from our sins and to give us life, everlasting life. If we believe this to be true then our old, dead, sinful spirit is quickened to life so that we might live for Christ and or God while we are living in our human bodies on earth. This is much easier said than done. In order to live for Christ we have to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Jesus in the way that he leads us. Satan, who is attached directly to our dead spirit, and who's existence depends solely on our participation with him will do everything in his power to keep his relationship with us. "Live for the moment, you can serve God later". These are the words from Satan. But they are a lie. We can not live for God later, we can not even serve Satan later, we can only live, Now. God sent His Son so that we might "live" every Now, thus giving us everlasting life. Satan wants us to "perish" every Now, thus keeping us in everlasting death. This is the epic of the human condition.

Paul the apostle writes, referring to Isaiah 49:8

2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.

Now is the time to choose.

I am headed to Pine Bluff for three weeks of work so will only blog on the weekends. Thanks for reading and following.