God's Timetable is Not Ours

2 Peter3:8  “ But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: with the Lord a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day.”

            Lord, You know how this verse alone has fed heresy within the church concerning the six days of creation.  Even great Christian scholars have fallen into the thinking that creation took 6000 years, not six days, incorporating creation and evolution.  I believe that thinking takes away from your magnitude and omnipotence!  Of course you could have chosen to create the universes, our earth and all that is in and on it in that long period of time, but You didn’t.  If You did, You would not have said six times in Genesis, “And there was evening and morning of the ___ day.”  How GREAT Thou art!

            I believe through Peter, You are trying to get us to understand that in eternity, time means nothing and You are certainly not bound by it; and because we are a slave to time, since that is all we know, we should not try to put You in our box on our “time table”.

            Dr. Don Fowler here at Liberty University (the man is fluent in seven dead languages!), teaches in his Old Testament Backgrounds class that we need to be careful as we study not to toss around the millennia in scripture like quarters.  If we who are bound by time tend to do that…how much more does time mean nothing to You the eternal God!