Heaven Land Devotions - Jesus Christ Master Of Time And Eternity

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For about a few weeks I have been noticing thoughts coming into my mind about the "what-if's" of my life. Thinking about what if I had lived somewhere else? What if I had never did such and such?

These thoughts are very natural to all people as they grow older. I think we cannot help but think those thoughts, and how things could have turned out better or different according to our own surmising. However, I had noticed that these thoughts started to plague me, and it was not at random times.

It happened to be only during that time I would read my Bible in the morning. What started out as natural became empowered by the enemy. I started spending more and more time fending him off of me, making reading difficult.

I have been sick for a couple of weeks so my strength was abated. I did not have full force of fighting power. I did what I could in direct prayer to the Lord to help me. Until I started gaining strength and standing my ground.

I started really thinking about all the "what-if's" in times past differently when I read in a letter written by Samuel Rutherford, dated 1640, he speaks of how hard it is to be patient if we allow our thoughts to become stuck "down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes."

By this he means all the times we say, "If only I hadn't been in the wrong place," or "If only I'd gone a different time." He means a subtle temptation to link together earthly causes-and-effects. To fight against this temptation, to escape the confused, grinding, second wheels of this human "logic." Rutherford cries to us from across history: "Look up! Look to the Master-motion and the first wheel."

During the time I read his words I came across this verse in Isaiah 57:15: " For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." [Who dwell in and inhabit time].

A freedom and lightness came over my soul, and peace flooded in like the shining light of the sun when the shutters are thrown open in a dark room. I then saw that Jesus Christ is, and has always been, and always will be Master of time and eternity. Yours and mine. There are no second causes, no other wheel-house.

"We see hardly one inch of the narrow land of time. To our God, eternity lies open as a meadow." ~Amy Carmichael