Eternity, no beginning and no end!

 

I’ve started reading 1 John yet again. So good!! Jesus was from the beginning… but was there ever a beginning? Eternity has no beginning and no end. My mind cannot grasp that. God has ever been, and ever will be. No beginning, no end!
There are vast universes out there. They are endless. Are we the only place where there is intelligent life? Has God created beings in his own image elsewhere? Could be. Have they done better than us? Perhaps so.
How vastly different is our little world trapped in time and space when compared to God with his infinite timelessness and infinite universe, with no beginning and no end. We cannot begin to grasp it as much as we may try. There is no logical explanation. Yet God made us in his own image, and desired to have fellowship with us because he loved us, his own creation. By giving us free wills he introduced a tremendous wrinkle in it all. Jesus has and continues to deal with that wrinkle.
By choosing him our wrinkled will is lined up with God’s. We are then inheritors of eternity. What a healing that will be and already is!

Thank you, Jesus!

Winter is around the corner

 It's late autumn here in southern Australia, and winter is just around the corner. Yesterday we had a frosty morning and a lovely autumnal day followed.

This morning we had another frost... and was it a good one! Temp was -3.6 Celsius but the feel like temp was -6.6 Celsius.  It has not warmed up very much since.

We still have 11 more days of autumn so I wonder just how cold winter is going go to be this year. We already had snow May 7 though it was only flurries. Brr... time to keep the fire going and to stay cosy and warm.