Miyerkules, Oktubre 17, 2012

ODB- Before the Beginning.


When he was a teenager, my son asked me one of those questions that make you earn your pay as a parent. “Dad,” Steve inquired, “if God has existed for eternity, what was He doing before He created the universe?”
So, what was happening in the eons before “God created the heavens and the earth”? (Gen. 1:1). For one thing, we know that there was “wisdom” before creation itself, which came from God’s character. Wisdom, personified in Proverbs 8:23, said, “I have been established from everlasting, from the beginning, before there was ever an earth.”
Also, we know that God’s salvation plan of grace was in the works before the world was hung in its place. In 2 Timothy 1:9, we read that grace “was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.” Likewise, Titus 1:2 says that eternal life was promised “before time began.” We also know that Jesus was glorified and loved in God’s presence “before the world was” (John 17:5; see also v.24).
These tiny glimpses of God before He created the earth help us see a little of the essence and magnitude of our awesome, eternal God. We see His majesty and greatness. Amazing, isn’t it? We worship a God who existed from the beginning . . . and beyond.
Great God of the universe, we stand amazed that
You are the Alpha and Omega—the Beginning
and the End—and so much more. Thank You
that we can worship and magnify You.
The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
—Sir Thomas Browne
God is eternity. That is certain. But we may ask after the earth has  made what was God doing. The bible stated that there is wisdom before the earth. God is planning everything in perfect. :)
It is hard to tell what literally God did before. But He planned us to be saved in His grace. 
This is a knowledgeable fact cuz it seems that I had no idea about these things. What gives me ide is that God love us in the first place. He detailed all His plans that at the first place, He planned us to be saved....and to be with Him.
are you not happy that even you were not here in this earth God planned you to be saved? God indeed is a great planner!

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