Today in the One Year Bible, we read from Titus 1:1-16. Paul tells us (and Titus) that God (who does not lie) made us a promise before the world began. Now how could He have done that if we didn't exist yet?
Well, there are (at least) two answers to that question. One is that God is outside of time, so He can make promises to anyone on the timeline from before, during, or after time begins and ends. Because it's not actually before, during, or after... it's outside of those things. Hard to grasp, maybe impossible to fully understand.
The second answer is that God can make a promise at one time that is fulfilled years, decades, even millennium later. But the interesting thing is that God was announcing the good news of our salvation from sins that would not be committed until much "later". He began saving us before we existed to need saving.
That's the kind of plan we can trust, and that we can believe in. Even if we don't fully understand it.
God, thanks for doing things we don't understand to save us from ourselves.
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