When I think of the passage of time, I think of the long for a better tomorrow, hardship of days and years, and the time of looking at the overlook from the top of the mountain. We all long for the vacation, but do we get the vacation. Do we get the time of relaxation and fun in the sun or is it really more work. It depends on what you consider work, relaxation and fun. We all long for the vacation of just enjoying life, but in truth it not a reality beyond heaven gate. I remember when I was sick and waiting for a phone call to tell me why I was so sick. I sat on the bed playing cards with my husband. We were laughing and cutting up to the point I did not know if I could contain the emotion of joy and laughter of the moment, then the phone rang. Change the dynamics of the moment to one of not understanding fully what the doctor just spoke to me on the other end, to running through every medical book available in the house we were at to the immediate search online for the word myelofibrosis. And the point being computer searching then was not like today, it was not the first thought nor the last thought either. It was time frame of oh lets try the computer, not flip out the phone and do a search. Yet we remember the nineties. I still wonder today how long do we have to deal with the issues we are diagnoised with, or pains from injuries. When does God heal? When is his deciding moment of that enough for that person and deliverance and rescue comes.

If a group of people can be punished so can the individual, no one wants to talk about punishment of God but it part of life. It part no one talks about when it comes to themselves. Do I think any thing I been through has been punishment from God maybe and maybe not. What I mean is how long does it take a person to come to their knees concerning sin. How long does it take man to turn away from sin. When we read in scripture of the sin of Israel we know it was not quick sin that brought destruction, we know God was merciful, before destruction was finally brought to the tribe of Israel. It was when sin got so bad that destruction is God's only choice. Yet what is interesting God prophesies the exile of man to the restitution of man, how long it will take. Israel first exile to Egypt came with blessings from above of need of grain, but the journey out came with a price because Israel had not been as faithful to God during their days in Egypt. In fact part of the reason they were to leave Egypt was for purification purposes. Yet we have to examine something even more, God put a fear in his people that he called his people. He show them the conquences of Egypt with still protecting his people.

A thousand days is like like yesterday. If you watch grass grow or anything for that matter then walk out in the morning or after a storm and see it destroyed, you know the destruction and power of God that is coming to our world at some point. Our understanding of destruction comes from things things we see in nature, but it also come with the knowledge of time frame for destruction. If we can grasp as a believer and not believer that the hope is not in destruction but what is to come after the destruction and correction of the world. The world will be destroyed, and those in it that believe not will not have any hope. But those that have hope that destruction and fury of God wrath is quick and we will witness it. Do we look for the day God destroys what we understand in our world and replaces it with the new home he built for us that is going to coming down from heaven when His Son appears.

With horror of news of doctor, it did not stop me from getting up the next day to journey on or continue in life. Today it like a memory that not easily erased with the passing of time, but it is a memory of how fast things change from joy to sorrow and then to the reality the journey goes on, even if I had not survived. It also tells the journey does not end with the news, or the words of one person. Train wreck did stop me from driving ten days later, though I be honest pain wise, I should of been home in bed. Life does not end when hardship comes, unless it is your time to depart, it comes with the knowledge of hope for the next day, that day will come when pain will go. Fourteen years later it did when God healed. We do not stop living even after the day of God destruction, for he has a home for us. He has a promise for us. He has hope for us. Yet he does not have that hope for unbeleiver, so if not believer you are made for destruction until you decide you want to be a part of the kingdom of God by receiving Jesus as Lord of your life. It that simple. Tomorrow will come, and God has not changed. God was before the world began. We understand as he created he put certain principals together that rule this earth, and makes it function without his word constantly being spoken. It set in motion by his Spirit. As a kid swings on a swing, the person behind pushes for a moment but the swing continues moving even when no longer pushed. God knows the time frame of destruction, the time frame of the mountain top experience, and the vacation of relaxation, to the time of hard work, sorrow and pain. Yet he also knows when he will pour out his wrath and bring about a better tomorrow which is deeper then the physical realm but also the spiritual realm. What we receive spiritually from the Lord is deeper then those things we see before us, though they are often a metaphor of life that effects the spiritual realm.

Where are you today in trusting in a God that holds the whole world in his hands and fits in your heart once becoming a believer. He lives within us to teach us about his beauty and his wrath, his destruction and his hope. His promise of his word and the value of that hope within his word.

Dear Heavenly Father, help us not to rely on our understanding of the things going on around us, but trust in your word and destructive nature of your Almighty Hand and the hope that comes by the comfort of your Spirit, knowing your time frame is not ours, In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: 2 Peter 3:1-18 KJV
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.