Fleeting Thoughts on Space, Time & Eternity

I suppose, to the temporal mind, we are of a four- or five-dimensional consciousness, that is the three or four common spatial dimensions plus time. To me, time is by far the strangest, even though the others have their own wonders. For us, time moves strangely in one direction – forward. Though we perceive past, present, and future, and God affirms such… “who was, and is, and is to come”, we can only seem to dwell in the present, which is constantly moving forward. And to add to the wonder, our perception of time varies.

We can no more stop time than we can inhabit a infinitesimally small point, squeeze into a line, flatten ourselves onto a area, or inhabit a coordinate in three-dimensional space. It is as though the creative Word, “Let there be _____ “, has never been halted. It just keeps on keepin’ on.

It is said that God is outside of time, unbound by it, and He is still all in it, using it for His glory. I imagine it is far easier for God to do the things He does with time and space, than it is for us to use spacial coordinates, boundaries, area, volume and such. I think, perhaps, we shall be able to behave similarly when we have our glorified bodies. Jesus showed up in locked rooms, altered His appearance, and transported the disciples several miles in an instant on the Sea of Galilee. Phillip, after baptizing the Ethiopian eunuch somewhere on the desert road from Jerusalem to Gaza, was suddenly taken by the Spirit and found himself many miles distant in Ashdod, by the sea.

I wonder if what we consider the spiritual realm is really just another place up the dimensional scale. A place we see now only as in a mirror, dimly… if eternity is that heavenly place that transcends dimensions, that can be understood by those created in the image of our Creator, when we are redeemed, reconciled, resurrected, and glorified in the manifest presence of our Holy God. To know fully, even as we are fully known (1 Corinthians 13:12).