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Key Bible Verses: In the beginning the Word already existed …. The Word became human and lived here on earth (John 1:1, 14) Bonus Reading:John 1:1-5, 14-18

Hugh and I lay on the deck of a freighter at night and looked at the brilliance of the stars against the black velvet sky. The nearer ones were maybe seven light years away, the next ones seventy, and others seven hundred, seven thousand, seven million. So we were seeing that luminous sky not only in our own present, but in the long past. Perhaps one of those sparkling diamonds was no longer there, even though we were just now seeing its fire.

How limited our view of time usually is! Our ship was moving from time zone to time zone at ten knots an hour. The planet was moving, as it turned daily on its axis and yearly in its journey around the sun. And the sun was moving in the great turning of our Milky Way. It's difficult for us—who were born in time and whose mortality will die in time—to understand that before that first act of creativity, there was no time, no space.

During our brief, mortal lives, we're given glimpses of eternity—there before time began and after it ends. The Word, who moved into time for us, lives as Christ, in eternity. So when He lives in us we, too, are free from time, alive in God's eternal now.

—Madeleine L'Engle in And It Was Good

My Response: I'll thank Christ for freeing me from the limits of time and space.

Thought to Apply: Long before I can think of God and love Him He has already thought of me and anticipated me.

—Helmut Thielicke (German theologian)

Adapted from And It Was Good (Shaw, 1983) by permission.

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Prayer for the Week

Almighty God, restore my sense of wonder at the magnificent immensity You have created.

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