V18 While we look at the things which are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (KJV)
What a concept! If you only live in the now, the present, you will only know the things you can see and will have no perception of the existence of anything else. No yesterday, no tomorrow, all you will experience is the reality of the now.
Yet, God has given us a gift. He has given us the ability to not only live in the now but to remember what has happened in the near and far past and to forecast what we hope to see and do in the future. But even with this gift, God is saying here that what we can see is temporal, existing only in our minds the moment they happen. He is also saying that there are things not seen like the grace of His love for us that is eternal. All we need to do is accept His gift on faith and it will be ours for eternity, unseen yet very real.
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I think you have it spot on. Most people would take this reading to mean what you have put as the "also". We can certainly know the past and the present and the future, but can we know time? Is time something we will ever really understand? I try so hard to make time go slower but it is ever quickening. However, we have to look beyond this to the real matter of what we do with our time.
ReplyDeleteJust as the things we can't see are eternal, the things things that aren't material are the most important and most meaningful
Great post and thanks for always being so insightful.