What time is it, anyway?

Every Friday, Mark has a class that meets in the morning at Kent's house. The class ends around 11:30, and then they all eat lunch together at Kent's. Today I had the opportunity to eat with them; it was fun.

I was evesdropping on the end of the classtime (just before lunch), and there was some pretty heavy GRAD conversations happening. They were talking about God and time and our understanding of God and time, and the difference between the two and a whole bunch of other stuff as well. It was all very complicated.

But from my point of view that is an important question to be asking. If God's thoughts are higher than my thoughts and his way higher than my ways, and if he lives inside and outside of the dimensions as we know them, then God lives around the dimension of time.

This prompts questions like: Do we have the foundation and the authority to say that God changes?

Kent mentioned that time has to do with movement. We understand the dimension of time in motion.

So if God's anger lasts only a moment, and his favor lasts a lifetime, then we can see that God's movement favors love. Weeping may remain for the night, but in the morning comes rejoicing.