Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.”
NL Daily Devotion for Sunday, August 6, 2023
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
As human beings, we are boundaried by time. Our existence is bookended by it—the time we are born to the time we die. We have no real understanding of the time before or the time after. I remember as a child learning about the Civil Rights Movement and thinking it happened a million years ago, when in reality, Dr. King was assassinated a mere three years before I was born. I sometimes contemplate a future in which I am no longer alive, particularly as it pertains to my children and how they will be able to support themselves long term, and it fills me with fear. I “cannot find out what God has done from beginning to the end.”
What this requires is a deep trust that God’s got this. She was there at the beginning of all things, and she will be there at the end of all things. My finite earthly existence is what it is. I can live and move and have my being in the time allotted to me, and enjoy it to the fullest knowing that all things—all of time, all of existence—are in God’s hands.
Do I find myself anxious about time? How can I turn this over to God?
