But do not forget this one thing, dear friends:
With the Lord a day is like a thousand years,
and a thousand years are like a day.
2 Peter 3:8
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I have been thinking about the word “soon.” It seems relative to one’s view of time. Jesus said he would return soon (Revelation 22:12). From our viewpoint, it has been two thousand years, but from God’s perspective, it has been “like” two days. With God, “a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day” (2 Peter 3:8). The Old Testament ends with a promise of an Elijah-type prophet (Malachi 4:5). I imagine the Israelites thought he would arrive soon, but it was approximately 400 long years later when John the Baptist arrived. For them, it seemed like an eternity, but for us, it is just a turn of a page in our Bible. In the same way, it seems like a long time for us to wait for Jesus to return (and to wait for other things), but for God, it is a blink of an eye.
Thank you to Riverside Church for contributing to these thoughts.
good thought! life with small children also feels like a thousand years . . .
I like to think of our time on earth in light of eternity. Imagine our lives to be a line. Our entire existence on earth is a dot on the line, as the line stretches on infinitely 😛 – so in light of eternity, Jesus is coming soon =]
(dot)————————————————–>(eternity)
^Our time on earth in light of eternity ;P
P.S.: Thanks for posting on my blog, I responded, but I think the comment system was having trouble.
ANOTHER 1000!!!
One day with Him shames A THOUSAND anywhere else.
Ps. 84:10
Better is one day in your courts than A THOUSAND elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
Thanks for making my mind wander today–in a good way!
I love this! It really does get my mind going. I like how you talked about it is just a turn of a few pages to us in our Bible but spans a much longer time years ago. All we have is one day to live at a time~
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