TIME

The Lord created our physical world with four 'space-time' dimensions ... length, width, height, and time. Mankind struggles with the concept that God exists in a totally different realm ... where the marking of time is irrelevant.

But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 2 Peter 3:8

Our finite minds can only grasp God’s timeless essence in part. We describe Him as having no beginning or end, eternal, infinite, and everlasting ... yet fail to comprehend the magnitude of what that means. 

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting Thou art God. Psalm 90:2 

Time can be defined as the 'duration' of something; it is by nature the precondition for 'change' ... i.e. when anything takes place that alters reality, we know that 'time' has passed. Therefore, it can only occupy the physical realm. Since God is Spirit, time did not exist before creation. 

And He remains unaffected by it, even now ... 

F B Meyer - There is no succession of time with God: no past, no future; He dwells in the eternal present, as the great 'I AM'. As we may look down from a lofty mountain on a stream in the valley beneath, tracing it from its source to its fall into the ocean, and feeling that each part of it is equally distant from the spot where we stand, so must time appear to the Eternal; who was, and is, and is to come.

God is Lord over 'time' itself. Those who foolishly demand that He operate according to their schedule ignore the fact that He is sovereign, the 'High and Lofty One ... Who lives forever'. (Isaiah 57:15) 

Scripture reveals that God knew you before time existed. Your destiny was planned 'before the beginning of time' (2 Timothy 1:9) and 'before the creation of the world' (Ephesians 1:4).

As believers, we can experience a deep sense of comfort knowing that our 'timeless' God has promised to be with us in the 'now' of life. The Lord Jesus Christ is not unreachably transcendent, but right here ... this very moment.