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Written by the Reflections Ministry team.

Think back to a time when you went through a particularly trying set of circumstances…Whatever time in your life you are recalling, you probably remember that minutes seemed like hours, hours dragged like days, and days became more like months. The seemingly glacier-like movement of time only exaggerated the pain, discomfort, or evil you were experiencing. You might have wondered how you could possibly make it even one more day. Looking back now on that difficult period of your life, it’s likely that you have a completely different perspective. What amounted to the torturous passage of minutes, you now view as a single block of time…When the perspective of distance allows us to view a period of days or weeks as a single unit—as a “day” in our life rather than a series of days—we are close to seeing life as God sees it… God does not measure time as we do—He sees all of history at once. There is no past or future with God— everything is “present.” While we view experiences as a string of occurrences— usually a long, tedious string—they are a single reality to Him…Whenever you feel caught in a slough of slow-moving, sinister events, remember two things: First, the day will come when you will see it differently; second, God sees it differently already. The evil that seems to dominate our age has already been dominated by God’s design for time—and for eternity.

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand  years are like a day. [2 Peter 3:8]