Jeremy Bearimy
In a television show called “The Good Place,” a show about
the afterlife, I remember an episode where Michael (Ted Danson) explained to
the newly dead how time worked in heaven.
He said that while humans experience time in a linear fashion,
time in the afterlife “moves in a Jeremy Bearimy;” doubling back and looping
around until it looked a little like the name Jeremy Bearimy written in
cursive.
For me, that silly little sitcom episode seemed to answer a question
I’d been asking for a long time…
I have often heard things like, “God knows the end,” or, “the
end is already written,” but I wondered how that could be possible. However, if a heavenly timeline were to move
in a “Jeremy Bearimy,” – that would make a little more sense.
There have been times in my life where if I look back, things
that happened in my past perfectly prepared me for things in my future…conversations,
acquisition of skills, people I’ve met, etc.
If the end is known, then God put these things in my life to help guide
me to the path He hopes I’ll take.
Jeremiah 29:11 says:
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
I believe God has a plan for me, and that it is a good one;
and I think that because He knows the end, He keeps putting things in my life
that will encourage me to live out that plan.
The Bible tell us that God desires a relationship with each
of us, and that in the end, Satan is defeated and God wins. Whether I am a part of that or not, depends
on whether or not I respond to all of the times God has doubled back and looped
around, hoping to call me to Himself.
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