It's Not about Me chapter 5

Chapter 5: Just a moment

Not even God made God. On sunday Ashley brought up a good question. If God created the world, who created God. Well the answer is simple. Not even God created God. He IS the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning AND the end! Nobody created God.

Along with Alpha and Omega there are many words to describe God: everlasting King (Jeremiah 10:10) , Incorruptible (Romans 1:23), who has immortality (1 Timothy 6:16), but you [O God]are the same, and Your years will have no end (Psalm 102:27), the number of his years is unsearchable (Job 36:26) There are many more but those are just a few.

God knows our beginning and our end, because he has neither. He IS the beginning and the end, so he has NO end!

He does not live sequential moments, laid out on a timeline, one following the other. His world is one moment, or better stated momentless. He sees our birth and burial in one frame. Its like a puzzle. Our life is one big puzzle. Each problem is one piece of the puzzle, and it is put together to make one big picture. But we only see one piece of the puzzle. God sees the whole picture. He is the only one who has the cheat sheet (the top of the box marked, _______'s Life) He is the only one who knows how, and when our lives will end. He is the only one who knows our future!

The length of our lives on earth is just a moment compared to eternity.

Paul says that the attacks, hunger and thirst are "light afflictions to be endured for just a moment" What if we took the same attitude towards life? What if we just saw our life as just a moment. What if we saw our problems as a grain of sand. It is small compared to the whole beach!

Max says here that "Fleeting days don't justify fleeing problems. Fleeting days strenghtn us to endure problems. Will your problems lass? No guarantee they will. Will your pain cease? Perhaps, Perhaps not. 2 Corinthians 4:17 says 'our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory' There are a couple paralells that I got. One is drinking. People drink to take away their problems. People have told me that when they drink, their problems just seem to go away. But at the end of all that drinking, you wake up and your problems are still there, and added to them is one big hangover. Another paralell I got is eating disorders. People seem to think that starving themselves or purging their food is goin to make them loose weight. Well in the long run it might, but there are so many problems that come along with eating disorders: organs damaged, organs shut down, eventually you could die if it gets worse. People seem to think that starving themselves or whatnot, is going to take away the problem of weight. Well let me tell you, its going to ADD problems. It might take away some weight, but it will add 10 times more problems just to get that one problem taken away.

I like this paralel that Max gives. This lady was using a pan scale. The weight of the purchase would be determined by placing weights on one side and the purchase on the other side. God does that with our burdens. He stacks them. Does he remove them? No, he offsets them. He places an eternal weight of glory on the other side.

We can be sick for just a moment.
We can be lonely for just a moment.
We can be persecuted for just a moment.
We can struggle for just a moment.
Can't we?
Can't we wait for our peace? It's not about us anyways. And its certainly not about now.