Trust in the Lord because He knows the end from the beginning. His omniscience and infinite love for each of us is most inspiring. We have His great promise that we can couple into the beautiful TRUTHS of God and of Eternity as we pray (Matt. 7:7-8). And, as we treasure up His word we will not be deceived (JS-M 37). As we ask, we will receive. As we seek, we will find. As we knock, God’s TRUTHS will be opened to us. But it will be in His time, not ours, as He knows best.
Plan of Happiness
Because of Him and His “Perfect Plan of Happiness,” our hearts are filled with hope and rejoicing. We contemplate the future with trust in our hearts. This, despite all our imperfections. In the grand ironies of God, He will bring perfection out of imperfection. He will bring Joy out of suffering and misery. He will give us perfect resurrected bodies out of bodies that crumbled in the dust. He fills our hearts with love in contrast to Satan’s hate. We can make a very long list of these amazing ironies, “God’s Grand Ironies”.
Sincere Prayer
Every sincere prayer couples us into the Eternity Domain, where God and His angels do their perfect work for us. As we pray, He will open to us our pre-ordained missions for our mortal journey. Time and Space are mortal limitations; Not His. This is why He asks us to pray, “Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.” The Kingdom of Heaven is perfectly organized. As we pray, we can help it come on earth as it is in heaven. The Lord will bless our efforts, as we do so—bringing joy to our souls.
Trust in the Lord
I would like to share an example in my own life of the blessing of trusting in the Lord. The other morning, I was praying and thanking the Lord for the incredible blessings He has showered upon me. Knowing that He knows the end from the beginning, my mind went back to when I did my master’s thesis.
In 1965 I was working on the thesis at the University of Colorado. It came as it did because I trusted the Lord to do things His way rather than my way: Inspiration for the Allan variance. I could not have done my thesis without the magical table on page 43 of Sir Michael James Lighthill’s Monograph at Cambridge, FOURIER ANALYSIS AND GENERALIZED FUNCTIONS, which he just completed the year before.
My late and good friend, boss, and colleague, Dr. James A. Barnes taught me how to use this Monograph for my thesis, which gave birth to the Allan variance, the Modified Allan variance, and the Time variance, which became the international metric standards for time and frequency, navigation, and the telecom communities respectively. With Jim’s insightful help and inspiration from the Lord, my thesis was published in a highly recognized journal in February of the following year: the “Allan Variance”.
Results of the Allan Variance
The table on page 43 of Lighthill’s Monograph gave me the means. I could transform these three variances from a time-domain analysis of the data to knowing the different spectral colors. These spectral colors in the frequency domain gave us great insights into proper data modeling. For example, seeing these spectral colors in clocks, navigation systems, and telecom systems gave us much better models for the data. These models gave significant insights into what was going on in the data.
These variances have been also used in many other areas of technology and in medicine. The Allan variance nicely characterizes flicker noise. Flicker-noise is ubiquitous in nature. We also recently characterized turbulence-noise in 200 years of Tropical year data—going as f-4/3. Where f is the Fourier frequency modeling the data. There are many other natural processes. For example, flicker walk-noise, flicker run noise, which we observed in the long-term variations in the Earth’s spin rate. White-noise, random-walk noise are also commonly observed. Being able to tell the difference between measurement noise, clock-noise, and environmental perturbations is very important. These variances can detect these Fourier components using easy time-domain statistical analysis.
The Newton Chair
Lighthill was a brilliant-applied mathematician, who solved, for example, the acoustic problem of how to quiet down jet engines so that airports could be in proximity of cities. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and held Newton’s chair up until he died in 1998, just before Stephen Hawkings.
The Daily Telegraph described Newton’s chair as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world. Commonly named after Sir Isaac Newton, the most brilliant scientist in world history, who held the chair for 33 years. The formal name is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
Most people don’t know that Newton spent more time studying religion than science—being very devout. He had proven that the Church of England was wrong in many aspects of its theology, and this threatened his fellowship at Trinity College. He and his friends petitioned King Charles II, and the King placed Newton in the chair with exemption for Newton to “all holy orders.” Newton had also shown the great apostacy of Christianity during the dark ages and prophesied of a restoration of the Lord’s gospel.
What the Lord Taught Me
What the Lord taught me, as I was praying, is that He knows the end from the beginning. Lighthill’s Monograph was brought forth for me to use for my thesis. Jim Barnes knew about it and taught me how to use it. I am sure many others have benefitted from that Monograph. But, the Lord is in the details because of His infinite love for us over time and space.
As Moses shares what the Lord told him (Moses 6:63): “And behold, all things have their likeness, and all things are created and made to bear record of me, both things which are temporal, and spiritual things; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me.”
Thy Will Be Done
Let us completely trust in Him since He knows the end from the beginning. “Thy will be done” was the perfect pattern the Savior set before us. That is the path to a fullness of JOY and partaking of the Doctrine of Eternal Lives. May we join hands in doing so and be ONE with Him I pray.
David W. Allan
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PS Because I have tried to do HIs will, I have been greatly blessed. Because of my work with GPS, atomic clocks, timekeeping algorithms, and precising timing instrumentation, the Lord has made my name famous. He knew I would share the gospel (the good news). I call it the BEST NEWS! I am a praying physicist. It is because of Him and not any brilliance on my part more than anyone else that He has helped me learn and grow in TRUTH and LIGHT.
My books (It’s About Time, which harmonizes true religion and true science and Time & Eternity, The End-Times & Beyond Revealed) are about bringing people to Christ. My books’ website now has nearly 200 thousand visits from over 100 nations. Yesterday, I had 406 visits. The heart message of almost all my posts and of my books is God’s infinite love for each of us and of the enormous blessings of the Lord’s infinite atonement. As we trust in Him, He wells up in our hearts the glorious future He has in store for those who hearken to His voice. Listen and learn the TRUTHS of ETERNAL LIVES.