God outside of time
This morning I woke up a 4:45AM. When I wake that early, I consider it a time to pray or meditate. As I prayed I thought of God being outside of time. Time has no influence on Him. As I prayed for a particular situation I realized that to God, that situation is in the present. Or is that situation in the past, present and future? None! For all those moments are a point in time; which is inconsequential to God since He is outside of time. C.S. Lewis presents a picture where God is like a piece of paper, and a short line drawn on that paper is time. The idea is God “sees” all of time at once. Even that wonderful illustration is restricted by our concept of time being linear. We are bound by time. Comprehending something, anything not bound by time is in itself incomprehensible and inconceivable.
So why pray?
Pray, it seems, is our way of communing with God, it is for our benefit. God condescends to us, allowing us to “talk” with Him, the eternal, timeless, unfathomable and unapproachable God and Father. Unapproachable in that one cannot approach or come before a Being who is outside our reality. Yet He invites us to approach Him and come boldly before His throne.
Incarnation is paramount
This is why God became flesh, so we can truly see, approach and ‘come to’ God it both time and space. God became man, and as words are the visible (aural) manifestation of invisible thoughts, so Christ, the Word, is the visible manifestation of God. “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.”
Conclusion
The God outside of time and comprehension, bound Himself to time and space and flesh in order that we my approach Him, thus having fellowship with Him. The ancients were right, being a Christian can truly bring Heaven to earth, God to mankind.