Advent – Day 9: The Forever Fix

Psalm 45.6,7 6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;

A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;

Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You

With the oil of joy above Your fellows. NASB

Daniel 2.44 44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. NASB

If the problem with forever is that we can’t, as finite creatures, relate; the fix of forever then is to transform us into forever beings. The promise of forever is that we start and then we pursue and experience for all eternity. But for now we cannot look at eternity from a infinite point of view because we limit the view by our understanding of time. We don’t know anything other than time. Right now we are limited by time and space.

Eternity is ever present. There is no time with eternity; there’s only right now. In a sense we are in eternity right now because right now is all we have. Timex, Casio, Rolex, Cartier will all be memories in eternity. Time is a human thing because time spells out our limits. But what if there was is tomorrow, what if there is only right now?

The presence of the Lord and His Forever Kingdom is that it is a way of life that never cedes, secedes, or recedes. The kingdoms of men are around only until the next big thing; one day big things will come to an end because the Only Thing will be God’s Eternal Kingdom – and that is Messiah’s Kingdom; the One granted to Him from Eternity Past and the only One ruled by One who is fit to meet all of the needs of the entire race all of the time.

The Next Big Thing was a little child in a manger surrounded by two awestruck parents and a bunch of sheepherders. Huh, whodda thunk it? And because of Him the next is the only thing and our only hope for anything other than time and its passing.

God doesn’t work in the limits of time – His work is done in the moment by moment right now of His presence and power pulsating through our lives. It started with a Baby in a lowly manger and culminates with the return of a glorious Kingdom without spot or blemish – or end: the forever Fix.

Advent is about the beginning of this Kingdom amongst us men who only know beginnings and ends. The Forever Fix is our chance to start all over again and never stop. Advent had to have a beginning but the good news is, it has no end.

God offers the Forever Fix to those who are willing to leave the past in the past, and the future in the future. Theirs is a hope fixed on the eternal and a willingness to accept it in the right now. A tiny Baby, a lowly beginning; a kingdom without end. Welcome to the presence of God my friend.