Unnumbered Days

Have you ever thought about how much we number things?  Streets and highways are numbered, store aisles are numbered, shoe and shirt sizes are numbered, products are number, even people are numbered – you know, we have that infamous social security number!  I don't know, maybe we couldn't move through life without numbers?

 

The word "ever" occurs some 476 times in Scripture, and it means "the perpetuity of time, an unbroken age."  As finite beings, I’m not so sure any of us can grasp the concept of forever.  Psalm 139:16 says, "Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them."  Isn't it incredible we were known [by the Creator] before we were otherwise known!  It's hard to imagine, but time will cease one day.  In light of eternity - the forever - the relevancy of time won't be … relevant.  In the Apostle Peter’s words, “to God be glory now and forever." (2 Peter 3:18).  We mustn’t forget to God be glory now but what will it be like to never again gauge the present moment by a clock?  To never ponder time in relation to what we’re doing or where we’ll be?  There’s only endless-ness, timeless-ness, unceasing-ness. No more multi-tasking, the forever dedicated to praise of The One Who paid our sin debt.  No, I can’t really imagine it but that’s how it’s going to be for the Redeemed (the blood-bought ones) in those unnumbered forever days.  I’m ready – are you?