2 Peter 3:8
"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."

I lost my best friend 3 years ago in a traffic accident. He was a devout Christian, who introduced me to hunting, and fishing, teaching me most of what I know. Nothing about it made sense to me.

It was, and still is difficult to comprehend. Our concept of time, is different from God's. I can only hold on to the the thought, that he was a leader, and beat me in the race to heaven, just like he beat me in everything else. One thousand years from now, I guess it won't matter much, that he left the earth 20 or 30 years earlier than what would have been expected.