Yesterday, today and forever

Dear friend

God is not bound by time the way we are. There is a hint as to His prolonged perspective in various verses of scripture. For example, He has a very different view of what constitutes "yesterday". This is illustrated in the Old Testament, Psalm 90:2, 4.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
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4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past ...

We simply cannot look back on a millennium in the way He does. To us who are currently bound by earthly rotations a thousand years past is a huge piece of history. To him it is "as yesterday". Think how much we could achieve if our yesterday lasted a thousand years.

Of course for a Being who operates "from everlasting to everlasting", that ratio of one day to 365,250 days, is a trifling order of magnitude when compared to forever. And this is only the beginning of the Lord's use of yesterdays to teach us of His eternal nature. A common concept of His continuation is typified by a verse in the Book of Mormon, Mormon 9:9.

9 For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing?

I draw great comfort and confidence from the thought that God is perfectly consistent, completely reliable, unchangingly amazing. He is the same person without variableness; no mood swings, no bad days. We find Him always loving, always patient, always ready to bless us, always open armed. From such an One we can be assured of His unwavering commitment to our happiness and wellbeing.

He is without doubt a Being not restricted by temporal terra firma. This is majestically confirmed in Doctrine and Covenants 35:1, 2.

1 Listen to the voice of the Lord your God, even Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, whose course is one eternal round, the same today as yesterday, and forever.
2 I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was crucified for the sins of the world, even as many as will believe on my name, that they may become the sons of God, even one in me as I am one in the Father, as the Father is one in me, that we may be one.

I hope we will always retain in remembrance the eternal greatness of God. He is as wonderful today as he was yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that, ad infinitum.

Samuel.