Until the angel descends from heaven and sets his right foot upon the sea, and his left on the earth, and cries “that there should be time no longer,” we will be creatures of time, living in a time capsule, if you please. I like to believe time is a parenthesis in God’s eternal sentence.
I was impressed as I went through the book of Leviticus that the waiting period for diagnosing leprosy was seven days. The leper had to wait a week for the Priest’s findings. Whether it had to do with his person, clothes,or house, there was this long, grueling waiting period.
We learn from this teachable incident that though we may be, God is not in a hurry. It is the first thing He taught man in creation when he placed him in time. He showed mankind that even God, when dealing with time, didn't create the world overnight. It took time!
There are no clocks or watches in heaven. They’re the two means on earth, many times, that push us to our wit’s end. We need to learn that with time is a little word that accompanies it, “process.” Therefore we need to be patient. We read of our father Abraham, “And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise...For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”
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