Such a beautiful, divine thought...
Eternity is planted deeply in the soil of my heart. Placed there by God Himself.
If eternity is within me, then the past and the future exist in each moment just as much as the present does.
Trying to wrap my brain around that makes my head hurt. Such an unfathomable concept.
But the idea that eternity courses through me with every beat of my heart, seems to make some sense of my too-often struggle with being fully present in the moment.
I'm not very good at living in the now.
I am more likely to dwell on the past or restlessly wander ahead into the future. Both hold fears and hopes, of entirely different kinds. And both can either rob me of my present or enhance it.
God is timeless---existing simultaneously before now, after now, and right now---and He's planted the seed of His timelessness inside me.
As a gift, not to be fought against, but to be embraced.
There is a reason He wants me to live in the tension that past, present, and future create as they collide in every single moment. There is a purpose in the struggle.
Maybe embracing the now doesn't mean switching off the ever backward- and forward-wandering of my heart.
Maybe, instead, it means choosing to engage my present in light of the regrets and joys of my past, and the hopeful, sometimes fearful, yearnings of my future.
I need to remember that the One who was and is and is to come, lives within me, stabilizing me in the uncertainty of what was and is and is to come.
When I do, I live more mindful that God is in control. I live with more active trust in Him.
The constancy of Christ at work inside me---He who is the same yesterday, today, and forever---provides an anchor for my unpredictably inconsistent heart.
And that anchor holds fast.
No matter how turbulent the storm may be.