for God, there is no time--yesterday, today and tomorrow exist in an eternal present.
yesterday
yesterday in our world began when the universe began. scientists believe that the universe began 13.7 billion years ago. HubbleSite - Reference Desk - FAQs
scientists believe that planet earth is 4.54 billion years old. How Old Is Earth? - How Scientists Determine Its Age | Space
scientists estimate that from 2 to 6 million years ago early humans lived in Africa. Introduction to Human Evolution | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program
the oldest human records are about 5,000 years old. Ancient history - Wikipedia
yesterday for us began the day that we were born.
today
we live in a world racked by evil--war, deprivation, disasters, pain, suffering, death.
some of us also believe that we live in a world where "...Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven..." (matthew 6:10). we see the goodness of God and God's creation. we believe that mankind is God's greatest creation. God made mankind in His image. God's greatest gift to mankind is our free will. we can choose to sin--or not. we can choose to believe--or not.
"No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God." john 3: 13-21
"...lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil..."
doesn't it make sense--for those of us who believe that our free will is God's greatest gift to us--that we give our free will back to our Father in heaven, in thanksgiving, so that we do only His will? isn't this what Jesus did? in the desert? when tempted by satan? in the garden? on the cross?
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