Presently

We live in the ever-fleeting present.

As I type out the letters of the words in this sentence, each letter displays on the page, yet the action of typing each one recedes increasingly to the past. With each keystroke, previous strokes become further and further distant.

How can we graphically represent the present?

Imagine a number line. To the left of 0 (zero) are negative numbers, and to its right are positive numbers. Positive numbers indicate the future, negative the past. You and I are on zero on this ever-moving number line. We remain perpetually on zero—in the present.

We are never in the past or in the future. We may presently reminisce about the past or presently ponder the future. But we are always in the present—on zero.

God is omnipresent, everywhere present. There is nowhere God is not.

Omnipresence implies omnitemporality. In other words, God is not only everywhere present, God has been and will always be omnipresent. Thus, God is omnitemporal. God has been and will be omnipresent for all time. God exists omnitemporally.

God exists at everyplace on the number line all the time!

Time to Live

How long? How short. So live each day the daily way, trusting in God above (Matt 6:11, 6:34).

Forgive, forget; release your debts (Matt 6:12), living in step with the Helper (Gal 5:22–26).

The Clock of Life
(Robert H. Smith)

The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop
At late or early hour.

To lose one’s wealth is sad indeed,
To lose one’s health is more,
To lose one’s soul is such a loss
That no man can restore.

The present only is our own,
So live, love, toil with a will,
Place no faith in “Tomorrow”
For the clock may then be still.