Mission to the Snowfields
Did you, as a child, or do your children now, ever ask the question: "Where did God come from?"; or alternatively: "Who made God?"
If you did ask the question, did you get a satisfying answer? And can you satisfy your children?
The trouble is that this is the wrong question. We are so used to living in a time line, in which yesterday has gone, today is here and tomorrow never comes, that we try to put God into the same time line
Shakespeare did not write himself into his own plays, nor did Ian Fleming take part in the James Bond books or films.. They were the writers, the creators of their characters
In the same way, God is the supreme, the ultimate Creator. He made time itself!
When Moses met with God and was told to go back to Egypt and ask Pharoah to release the Israelites, he asked God what his name was, and God answered: "I AM", or "I am that I am". So in a sense, God is the verb to be, the present tense.
Had someone or something been before Him, to "make" him, that someone or something would have been God. This is illogical.
God, then is outside time. This is why the psalmist could say:
"For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."
This is one reason our website is named "eternity4u", because God wants us to join Him in eternity one day. Jesus once said: "Do not let your hearts be troubled, trust in God. Trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so I would not have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you..."
All it takes is our trust, our trust that when Jesus died for our sins and rose again to return to his Father, he opened the way for us also.
The psalmist concluded his poem with:
Search me, oh God, and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting"
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