This summer, my teammates and I have been reading through The
Knowledge of the Holy by AW Tozer. One of the chapters we read was on the eternity
of God, which celebrates the everlastingness of the Lord.
This specific chapter explains that we are bound by time, but
God is not. He has no beginning and no end. Tozer goes on to explain that being
restricted by time is a source of frustration for mankind, whose hearts have
been set on eternity:
“I think…here sets
forth both the glory and the misery of men. To be made for eternity and forced
to dwell in time is for mankind a tragedy of huge proportions. All within us
cries for life and permanence and everything around us reminds us of morality
and change. Yet that God has made us of the stuff of eternity is both a glory
and a prophecy yet to be fulfilled.”
Tozer references Psalm 90, the prayer of Moses. In this
Psalm, Moses reflects on both his morality and the eternity of God. Moses cries
“Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work
of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!”
Moses recognized that his time on earth was short but that
God is faithful to use earthly labors for eternal significance. Because God is
eternal and we are limited by time, we can rejoice that He is able to redeem
our efforts for eternal value. My teammates and I know we only have a short time
in this city, and more and more we are reminded of how quickly this summer is
coming to an end. However, we are trusting that God will establish the work we
have committed to Him.
Our prayer for the rest of the summer is that the Lord would
establish the work of our hands – that the work we have done, the conversations
we have had, and the relationships we have built will outlast us far beyond
what we can see or know for the glory of God. We ask that you join us in prayer
that God would use our efforts for eternal value as we finish up our last week
in the city.
-Mallory