Thursday, October 8, 2020
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A Thousand Years
But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like one day. The Lord does not delay his promise, as some regard “delay,” but he is patient with you, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
We have reflected before on our lack of patience and our inability to experience life patiently and humbly. We have thought about how our need for immediate gratification causes us anxiety, narrowness and shortsightedness. The millennia seem like immovable objects. The universe is far too vast for us to take in and yet we persist in trying to shrink God’s view into our own narrow field of vision. We are willing to sacrifice immense love and eternal peace for a few immediate moments of independence.
The psalmist sings: Better one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere. Better the threshold of the house of my God than a home in the tents of the wicked. (Psalm 84:10)
God says: My generosity is unlimited because my vision is so broad. My love is so deep because my hope reaches to the heights. My strength is unbounded because I take in all of time. The span of a human life is brief and yet you are precious to me. I want you to enter into my tent so that you might dwell in my heart. And yet if you are unwilling to spend time with me I am willing to wait. My patience is eternal. My endurance is unmatched. My love is all-encompassing. That is why I am able to wait for you to trust me. And although I would rather have you lodged well within my heart I am willing to wait. If you only enter my tent as far as the threshold I will wait for you . . . for thousands upon thousands of years.
We humans believe that we control and even manipulate time. Today we consider the magnitude and depth of God’s presence in our lives. And we imagine the new confidence we might find, the new energy we would have if only we might fully believe God’s promise.
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