Have you ever dreamed of traveling through time?
Have you thought about where you would go and what time you would choose? Would it be in this century or sometime in the past? Would you go back in time and stop a war, or just be an observer? Perhaps you would like to travel into the future to see how much technology had evolved and what could be done. Maybe it would be like Star Trek and you could step into a transporter to go anywhere in the universe by pushing a button. (Just make sure there isn’t a fly in the chamber!) Would you choose the past, when settlers were going west and populating the nation, carving their piece of America, out of hardship and sacrifice? Just think of the difference there is between these two sentences. Traveling in a covered wagon, no water, air conditioning, and bathroom; and stepping into a cylinder and in a blink of an eye being thousands of miles away. WOW! Which would you choose? To be part of building something or enjoying the endeavors of other people’s progress? What would you do in the future? Would you seek answers to age-old questions? Or in the past, would you build a better future for you family and those to come after you?
This is a very interesting question to ponder. What would you choose? What would you want to be remembered for? Would you go into the past to right a wrong you committed, or choice you made, you have always regretted? Let me ask you, the decisions you have made, both good and bad have made you who you are today. What would you change? If you went into the future, would you meet yourself as an older person? And likewise if you went back, would you engage yourself as a youth? One thing you could depend on; present, past and future, God is there. You say you want the answers to some questions you have always had, guess what, he gave you the book with all the answers in it, if you would just take the time to read it. In the past he created a perfect place and made man in his own image, so he could have a free willed entity to converse with. But we spoiled that and have been struggling ever since. Would you warn Eve not to eat the fruit? Oh, if it only worked that way. But we have been given the fix; in the form of a new-born innocent baby, born in Bethlehem to save the past, present and future people from their sins. All we have to do is ask him to come into our hearts, and our sins of the past, our present, and the sins we will commit, (because we are human and not perfect) in the future, will be expunged. It is almost like time travel, only better. Yesterday-Today-Forever Jesus is the same, all may change, but Jesus never! Glory to his name!
As parents we need to teach our children that there are no do-overs in life. Everyone must be held accountable for the life they live and the choices they make. Just like salvation, it is a choice, for which you will be held accountable. They can’t make a decision they know nothing about. The choice is initially theirs, but it up to you to give them the tools to make or reject that decision.
We as writers, like H.G. Wells, ‘TIME MACHINE’ like to dabble with the what if’s in life. To go where no man has gone before, in our writings. The possibilities are endless, but we all know there is no utopia and if there were, man would mess that up also. Good thing we were left the manual on how to fix it, now and in the future!
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalms 139