Luther and Lewis

For He must have enemies, and here on earth His Kingdom knows no settled peace. In the hereafter, in the life to come, there will be peace; but the Kingdom on this earth shall not know peace.—Martin Luther, Sermons, 1531

Well, here once again, the difficulty comes in thinking that God is progressing along the time line like us: the only difference being that He can see ahead and we cannot. Well, if that were true, if God foresaw our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose God is outside and above the timeline. In that case, what we call ‘tomorrow’ is visible to Him in just the same way as what we call ‘today.’ All the days are ‘Now’ for Him. He does not remember you doing things yesterday; He simply sees you doing them, because, though you have lost yesterday, He has not.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 281.