My professor talked today about a concept i’m particularly intrigued by:  the necessity of time.We know that God simply “is” - he exists outside of time and space, is the “I am” and is everlasting.  We also know that the truths of God, for example, his “faithfulness” - is a truth regardless of whether his creation validates it.  It simply is.  He is eternally faithful, yesterday, today and tomorrow.

But how do we, as finite creatures, witness and experience God’s faithfulness?  How is faithfullness in and of itself experienced?  Only through time.  A year from now, I will know and understand more of the faithfulness of God then I know today.  In 10 years even more.  But at what point will I exhaust the inexhaustible?  I cannot!  His faithfulness is infinite and perfect, and inexaustable.  This is why time is a necessary aspect for His creation, because it’s the only means we have to learn and understand His truths more fully.  This is why we have eternity.  1 billion years into eternity, we shall know more than in 2006 of his faithfulness, but shall never exhaust it!  Eternity in and of itself is a necessity to continue to know and understand our God who is infinite.

I think this is a pretty cool thing to dwell upon - why mankind has and needs time, and what exactly time adds to the equation.  We know time exists in heaven.  The tree of life, spoken of in Revelation brings new fruit each “month” - and there are several examples of space and time in apostolic visions and other scripture.  It seems extraordinarily neat to think of our need for the everlasting to progressivly learn more and more about the inexaustable.

Special thanks to my prof CL Mitchell for this insight.