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The late Canadian author Robertson Davies once pointed out a species of laughter that was peculiar to Merlin, the magician of King Arthur’s days. In those myths about the legendary King Arthur, Merlin was said to have been “born backward.” That is, he was born in the distant future and grew up going backward through time, instead of forwards. His future was our past, and his past, our future. This gave him a unique gift of prophecy. He could tell about things he had just seen in the future, because it was in his past, but he could not tell what had happened in our past, because to him it was in his future. The peculiar form of his laughter that Davies pointed out is demonstrated by one incident. Merlin was walking by a cobbler’s shop one day, and saw a dandy and vain young man of Arthur’s court arguing strenuously with the cobbler over the price of a very fancy pair of slippers. Merlin then let slip a hearty laugh of such a quality as to turn the hair of the bravest of Arthur’s knight’s white. Why that laugh? Because an hour ago, in Merlin’s “past,” he had seen that young man murdered by a thief over those very slippers.
I repeat that story here, not for idle whimsy’s sake, but to bring home a point we sometimes forget about the eternal God we worship and serve: He is in fact eternal. To many of us, that word “eternal” seems to mean only that God exists “forever and ever and ever.” That is true, but there is another dimension to that word that we frequently overlook. That word implies that God is in fact outside of time, being the creator of it, and that therefore every moment in time is as available to Him as every other moment in time, without fail and without fading. From the moment “When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (Job 38:7) to the moment at the end when Christ shall have delivered up the Kingdom to His Father ( 1 Corinthians 15:24), every moment in time is naked before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do (Hebrews 4:13). And that makes His laughter as fearsome as His wrath.
“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.” Psalm 2:4,5.
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One thing though: In the first section you spoke alot about "His future was our past, and his past, our future" and other statements along similar lines. I kept expecting to read something along those lines in your second paragraph in relation to God. You did mention that God, being the Creator of time, had access to all of it, but I found myself looking for a follow-thru in wording. Hope that makes sense. Melody