Время

God is not subject to time: time does not exist for God. The word “time” expresses the concept formed in rational creatures from the impression made in them by changes in phenomena in nature. This is how time is defined by science. “And there was evening, and there was morning: one day” (Gen. 1:5). This is how Scripture presents the origin of the concept of time, in complete agreement with the conclusion of positive science. 44 It is obvious that impressions from the outside cannot act on God, otherwise He would not be perfect and would be subject to additions and detractions, which is not characteristic of the infinite. In general there is no time for God, and there is no future time for him. What is to be accomplished lies before the already accomplished face of God, and the afterlife of every person, which must flow as a natural consequence from his earthly, voluntary activity, is already known to God, has already been decided by God. “Your eyes have seen my unfinished things” (Ps. 139:16), all-perfect God! An inspired prophet confessed this: every person must confess this out of logical necessity. The time of our earthly life is priceless: during this time we decide our eternal fate. “As it was in the days of Noah,” the Lord declared, “so it will be in the days of the Son of Man” (Luke 17:26). The days of the Son of Man are the time that will precede His coming, which will conclude with His coming - the beginning of the eternal non-evening day, the end of time and times. Time will end with the end of those phenomena by which it is designated: there will be no time when day, and night, and morning, and evening, and weeks, and months, and years, and centuries will be replaced by a single eternal day. Recently I was thinking about the brevity of human life on earth. Suddenly life seemed so short to me that the rest of my earthly life seemed to me to have already passed. I will still live - and what will I see new on earth? - Nothing. The same virtues and the same passions that have hitherto appeared before me in various costumes and actions will continue to appear; in the same way, virtue will quietly make its way among people, unnoticed, persecuted by them; in the same way, vice, hiding behind countless guises, will deceive people and dominate among them. A two-year life and a hundred-year life are equally small, insignificant before eternity. Usually, only the future time seems long to people; the past seems to them as short, instantaneous, like a dream from last night. Solitude, combined with delving into oneself, makes the future tense short. Short past, short future! What about earthly life? – The path to eternity, which must be used, but on which one does not need to look to the side. This path must be completed with the mind and heart, not in the number of days and years. You might be interested in: