Let Go of Time-Bound Anxiety

Journey Through Eternity

It’s time to release our fears tied to time—deadlines, aging, regrets, or the gnawing sense that we’re “running out.” But eternity has no ticking clock. God works in seasons, not stopwatches.

Conceptually, I believe in life after this one—an existence that continues from this world into the next. But if I’m honest, I’m not always brimming with faith about that reality. I find myself caught in time, and I don’t mean the present. My mind wanders and worries in the future, filled with “what-ifs” and worst-case scenarios. And I spend just as much time digging through the past—sifting through regrets, replaying old wounds, and wishing for do-overs.

Still, I gather what faith I can to be still long enough to remember: God is not bound by time. He doesn’t rush or delay. His view is eternal. Our existence is and will be forever. It’s only our human experience that keeps score, clinging to clocks and calendars as if they define reality.

And yet I live as though I’m constantly running late. I speed in traffic—even when I’m early. I check my watch during events I’m genuinely enjoying. Why? Because I’m infatuated with time. Obsessed with where I could be instead of where I am. My anxiety whispers that I should be somewhere else, doing something more, becoming someone I’m not yet.

“Do I live more in fear of the end, or awe of the eternal?”

That question hangs in the air. It reveals something deeper: I may be measuring life by my own imagined deadlines—not God’s. If God has no concept of time, then I must be the one keeping score. I am the anxious timekeeper, tormenting myself with arbitrary limits.

“And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” — 1 John 5:11

Eternity is not just a concept—it’s a promise. A destination already secured in Christ. And that promise changes everything: how we live, how we suffer, how we hope, how we love.

We are invited to live here, now. Not in the shadows of what could have been or the illusions of what might come. This moment, this breath, this presence—this is the gift.

“Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.” — Psalm 90:2

From everlasting to everlasting—God is. And so are we, in Him. Let us live as eternal souls, grounded in today, free from the tyranny of time.