Thinking about the Future
Fred Zaspel has a very insightful post over at the blog for CredoMag this week. Entitled, The Future: How Does God Know It, it dives into the purpose of God expressed through time. This is deeply insightful and will likely help you see God yet more clearly.
I love posts that help me see God better. God is like a beautiful gem with a perfect cut to display its brilliance. But God has infinite facets all worth studying. Part of being a member of the body of Christ is sharing our perspective on those facets in ways others haven’t seen.
But this post also brings to mind another interesting aspect of Christianity. I was recently sharing the very basics of our faith with a young woman who knows almost nothing about Christianity. I started with the beginning and the very clear and obvious (to me) fact that God existed before anything else and made it come into being. She didn’t balk so much at God creating everything, but at God existing before anything. Where did he exist? How did he breathe or anything when there wasn’t anything to breathe? These were all perfectly natural questions to her but were just a basic part of how I viewed the universe.
In thinking of how God knows the future, we are asking a metaphysical question that involves the nature of the universe. These are not questions your tribesmen in the jungle give much thought to. What is time? What is existence outside of the confines of space and time? Does the future exist, or is it being created at every moment? How does the future come into being? Christianity equips us to think about questions like these that scientists employ the highest level mathematics to attempt to grapple with.
So enjoy Fred Zaspel’s post today. And realize that the very fact that you are able to think about these issues is evidence for God.
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