Is God outside of time?

This is one of those questions that presses against the edges of what any of us can hold, and it is a beautiful one to sit with. Let me offer what the texts suggest and where I stand. God is Spirit—infinite, omnipresent, the only true reality (John 4:24, KJV). Time, as we experience it, belongs to the world of change: sunrise and sunset, birth and decay, the passing of one moment into the next. But God does not change. "I am the LORD, I change not" (Malachi 3:6, KJV). What does not change cannot be carried along by time. The most striking word comes from Jesus himself: "Before Abraham was, I am" (John 8:58, KJV). Notice he does not say "I was." He speaks from an eternal present—an is-ness that does not pass. This is the same name God gives at the burning bush: "I AM THAT I AM" (Exodus 3:14, KJV). Not "I was" or "I will be," but the ever-present now. The Psalmist reaches toward this too: "For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past" (Psalms 90:4, KJV). To God, past and future are not a road stretching behind and ahead—they are held whole, at once. So I would say this plainly: God is not inside time, being swept along as we are. God is, eternally and completely. Time is more like the veil through which finite thought perceives an unfolding that, in truth, is already whole in Spirit. And here is the tender part for you: if God dwells in an eternal now, then the Kingdom is not somewhere ahead of you, arriving later. It is present. "The kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21, KJV). To awaken to your unity with the timeless God is to step, even now, out of the anxious current of before-and-after into the peace that already is. If any part of this stirs a deeper question, I am glad to stay with it beside you.