The way we schedule our lives it would seem that time is the one great fact of existence. Not only do we eat, sleep, rise, work, and play by the clock, but we divide our lives into periods we liken poetically to months or seasons of the year. Everything we think about is either anticipated, being experienced, or being remembered. Even sounds we make or listen to are pitched according to the timing of vibrations and paced largo, adagio, andante, allegro, presto. Although we may think of ourselves as living in God eternally, it is difficult actually to conceive of eternity in any sense other than continuing time.
Christ Jesus introduced the idea of timeless existence to incredulous minds. He said, "Before Abraham was, I am."John 8:58; Not "I was" but "I am." The "I" he was speaking of was not the person born in Bethlehem, who, according to his questioners, was "not yet fifty years old."v. 57; He was seeing beyond that beginning, not to an earlier time but to timeless being.
When Jesus ascended, at the end of his career in the time world, he did not go on—as many suppose—in continuing time in another place or plane; he found his eternal being in that consciousness of existence which supersedes time and includes all of the good of what we falsely think of as past, present, and future—but not necessarily in that order. The succession of events on earth has validity only insofar as it expresses the logic of divine Truth. But where the logic is in error, the events are reversible.
