FROM INSPIRATION POINT

by John Young

#6 From Mt. Horab, "I AM" has sent you.

When God speaks he does not speak from time, but from eternity. Time belongs only to the earth with its rising and setting sun and making its circuit around the sun, furnishing us with a means of measuring our earthly existence.

But we get another view from Mt. Horab where God spoke to Moses from the burning bush. Moses wanted to know how to relate all of this to his earthlings, the Israelites in Egypt. He asked God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and tell them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you; and they will ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them? God said to Moses, 'I AM who I AM has sent you.'"

"I AM" is present tense. God is saying, "My existence is eternal. I have no beginning of time or end of days." "I AM" to your father Abraham, "I AM" to you, and "I AM" to generations yet unborn. God is not history measured by time and space. He is! He is immortal.

In an article appearing in the magazine section of the Los Angeles times, in about 1960, Dr. Werhner Von Braun, Director of the Army Ballistics Missile Agency (at that time) wrote, "But I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace."

Think about that for a moment. Once you do, your thoughts about life will never be the same.

Science has found that nothing can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation.

Now, if God applies this principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of his creation, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it also to the masterpiece of his creation, the human soul? I think it does. And everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.

God knew that mortals would have trouble dealing with immortality, and so he sent a living demonstration in his Son, Jesus, and because he lives I am assured that I will live.