God is personal

God is eternal. He also became a man. He transcended and transcends time and space to relate to us.

The all seeing, all present God is not only able to become a relevant observer of the broad physical context of the universe, or the galaxies and systems within the universe. He is consistently the same, warm, loving, pure, unchanging God across all of the created universe and no creature will ever be able to step away from Him.

David confirmed this in Psalm 139, where he concedes that even if he made his bed in hell God would be there. He would be as real on the highest mountain, in the deepest sea and on the remotest object of our universe. His spirit fill all of the universe and He is everywhere at all times, divinely bending space-time to be universally relevant and always accessible.

I mentioned in an earlier article that all time is defined by Him, including heavenly time. I described heavenly time as “event horizons”, great epochs that come and go in the onward advance of God’s eternal domain.

But here is a wonder. We are also subject to seasons (event horizons), despite also being subject to measured time (days, hours, seconds). We are not only partakers of God’s divine nature, but we also live within the continuum of divine time. Indeed, physical time is merely a measured, discrete subset of divine time.

Now consider this that the God who defines all our seasons, who causes things to come to pass in our lives, is also uniquely relative to those seasons and able to experience all that we go through, to give us a unique time and place experience. He not only knows the hairs on your head, but He bends time and space to place Himself right in the heart and essence of your personal struggles. Not only does He mark the timing of our seasons, by which means He is the sole determinant of when our seasons will end, but the combination of God and Time gives us a unique perspective of God.
Let me explain. The moon orbits the earth and to someone standing on Jupiter that is all so clear and understandable. But to you and me down here, we merely have a more discrete time and space concept of the moon – we see it there, now, and marvel at its beauty – the big picture is lost to us. Well, in the same way, God, a function of a far bigger context, presents Himself uniquely and personally to us within the personal seasons that He specifically defines for our lives – it is a perspective that is so unique to that no one else will ever see Him or know Him in the same way.

© Peter Eleazar at www.bethelstone.com