God is a God of order. Anyone able and willing to keep an up-to-the-minute record of the numbers of hairs on our heads simply does not acquiesce to randomness. This doesn’t mean that God has no spontaneity, but rather that His kind of spontaneity contains no randomness like “good luck” or “coincidence”. That’s how we think; not Him.
Many of us think that eternity in heaven will be “timeless”, but I disagree; I believe there will be “time” in heaven, only time without even a hint of decay in any form. And while we may spent millions of years in heaven, they won’t result in us being millions of years old.
Time, in a pure sense, is chronological. You can’t have tomorrow without having a definition of today. Even the term, “forever” denotes some kind of chronology. It would be meaningless without it. And while God is justly credited with being able to see the end from the beginning, neither term would make sense without chronology, and without chronology, the statement itself would be nonsense, and as such, unrelated to truth.
All of this is evident in the Genesis record of creation; it happened before the Fall, and it happened in six days. It was time without decay; time without death. While Adam was created to spend time on the new planet, he was not created to age while he did so. It was quite a Fall!
So concerning the clocks in heaven – while they may have hands, those hands will likely cast no shadows.
John
