(NOTE, PLEASE READ THE STORY, MY TEARS, FOUND ON JOTS AND TITLES TO HELP FURTHER EXPLAIN THIS STUDY).
Isaiah 57:15: “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabited eternity…”
I was reading an article published by Vanderbilt University regarding the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. The Hadron Collider is the world’s largest atom smasher that started up last year and this article said that it could be the first machine capable of causing matter to travel backwards in time. If this collider succeeds in producing the Higgs bosom some scientist predict that it will create a second particle, call the Higgs singlet, at the same time. According to these scientists these singlets should have the ability to jump into an extra, fifth dimension where they can move either forward or backward in time and reappear in the future or past. In other words these particles can travel back in time to appear before the collisions that produced them.
Scientists have now given me the ability to talk about this word ‘ad in realistic terms. We render the word as eternity. What fascinated me was this is not the usually word for eternity or forever, That word is ‘olam. ‘Ad comes from the root word adah which means to advance, past by or come. It means past time, present time and future time. Jewish scholars say it is related to the word hadah which means to stretch or manipulate. God is literally stretching time or manipulating time. This verse is actually telling us that God exist in the past, present and future simultaneously except, of course, that is impossible, right? Can it be that God lives in the past, present and future simultaneously like the Higgs singlet? Well if the Higgs singlet can do it, why can’t God, He created it?
In my new book in the chapter The Bum I tell how I was praying with a small group and I was just overwhelmed with the desire to pray a pure prayer, not one with a personal prayer but to pray a prayer from His heart. As I re-read the chapter I thought, “Boy, there is an error I need to correct, I mean to say pray my heart. But when I went to change I felt my spirit quicken and something kept me from changing it. I honestly felt God was saying this was not a mistake, that this is what I really long to do was to pray His heart.
Here’s the kicker, if I pray His heart, I am praying a heart that lives in past, present and future. I can pray for a present situation, a future situation but could I pray for a past situation. If at 10:00 PM some evening I feel prompted to pray for Old Charlie driving out of state and I prayer that he will be kept safe, then the next day I learn he avoided a terrible accident, I could say: “Praisealleujah, I prayed for you last night that God would keep you safe.” He would ask when I prayed and I would say 10:00PM, but he would say, “Oh, too bad the accident happened at 9:45 PM, your prayer was 15 minutes too late.” You might say, “Well, God doesn’t live in time, maybe my prayer was still effective.” You would be right according to Isaiah 57:15 God lives in the past, the present and the future and if I prayed the heart of God, it wouldn’t matter whether I was fifteen minutes late with the prayer or not. I think most of us can live with that. Now suppose I feel prompted to pray for someone’s safety as I feel in my spirit they are facing a serious accident. I then meet this person the next day and ask, “Did you have any near misses yesterday, I was praying for you.” The person may be a bit embarrassed and honestly admit that nothing unusual had happened the day before. Then just as an off handed remark say, “Fifteen years ago I was almost killed in an accident and it was only the grace of God I survived, so someone was praying for me back then.” If God doesn’t live in time and you prayed God’s heart, who is to say that that prayer fifteen years later was not the prayer of intercession that God used to perform His miracle.
My father used to tell the story of his grandfather who used to always invite him over for beans and cornbread when he was just a children. This was my father’s favorite meal. After the meal his grandfather would pull out his Bible and read to him and then he would look over his Bible and say: “Floyd, I am praying for you, some day you will feel those prayers.”
Many years later after my great grandfather passed away my father was on a ship traveling overseas to England during World War II. There were rumors of enemy activity which had destroyed another troop ship. My father went on deck fearful of what might happen then suddenly felt a calm. He knew and recognized it was his grandfather’s prayers.
The point of all this is not to say we should be praying for past events you pray as you feel led. But I want to point out that science has proven that it is possible for something to exist in the past, present and future all at the same time. I only ask you to meditate on that in relationship to God. This is how He can be a personal God. He is not living in time so He can spend 24/7 with you, every moment every second with you and you alone, move through time and spend 24/7 with me, every moment, every second. You are never out of his sight and you have his full complete attention. He has plenty of time to take care of the universe and the other six billion people because in his dimension, there is no time. It is possible and the scientists in Geneva just might prove it on September 23, 2015 when they rev that massive collider up to full power and maybe discover a Higgs singlet pass through time. But then big deal, God has been doing that since He created time.
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