One way of viewing the daily rhythm of our life is to understand that God has prepared our steps before the day has even arrived. Listen to how the psalmist described it.
“Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” – Psalm 139:16
How is it that God could prepare our steps before we were conceived? It is because God exists outside of time. You and I are the creation. God is the eternal Creator. We are confined to years, months, weeks, days, hours, even seconds.
Think of it like this. If you were to view a parade from the street sidewalk, your view would be quite limited. You could only see what passed by you at the moment. However, if you had a ten thousand-foot view, you would be able to see the parade from beginning to end. So is life. We are unable to see into next year. Quite frankly, we are unable to see into the next hour. Yet God has an altogether different view. Scripture teaches that God is:
“Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.’” – Isaiah 46:30
There is a destructive teaching happening in today’s church. It is called Open Theism. It is the belief that because of man’s free will, God Himself does not know the choices man will make. Therefore, God cannot know the future because it is open-ended. I would encourage those who hold to open theism over the sovereignty of God to think through Isaiah 46:30.
It is because God works outside of the confinements of time that He can say, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5). Should someone say that only applies to the prophet Jeremiah, note what the scriptures say about today’s believer.
“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” – Ephesians 2:10
In other words, before you were born, you were already created in Christ to do great things for God’s glory. Only a God who is able to see eternity past, eternity present, and eternity future could make such a statement. This is why we can be confident that every step we take is prepared by an eternal God.
