Almost certainly God is not in Time. His life does not consist of moments following one another...
If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. We come to the parts of the line one by one: we have to leave A behind before we get to B, and cannot reach C until we leave B behind.
God, from above or outside or all around, contains the whole line, and sees it all."
~ C.S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity”
When we choose to accept the invitation of Our Father to permit Him to lead us through our life's journey of self discovery, time as we understand the passage of time, should not influence our understanding of Our Father's promises, for our life is now in the care of the Divine Mystery.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Thus we can safely understand that The Father's plan for our life is designed with His timing calibrated perfectly to reveal in our life, all that He plans for us each, and every day we rise from our bed.
“He said to them: ‘It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.’” ~ Acts 1:7
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