Time Traveler, Part 1

I have often wondered what it would be like to be a time traveler. Visit the past, explore the future. I've never seen the Butterfly Effect, but what might I accidentally change were I to be out of my time. Who wouldn't be born? What countries would cease to exist now if I were to accidentally give "the past" technology from today? I am thankful that God has constrained us to time, but could there be a real time traveler? I say YES!

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." I love that verse out of Hebrews. Everything and everyone around us ages and decays, but Jesus never changes. Now tuck that away for just a moment.

"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him." (Ephesians 1:7-10) Jesus is the time traveler, spanning all time and space. All history is spread out before Him with only Himself able to enter it and change it. This is the mystery of His will, that He entered our time and chose us and bought us out of our depravity.

Are we living in the past? Or are we just planning for the future? How are we living in the here and now? If all we do is remember or plan, is that really living? Take a minte and write down how you spent your time today. Did you live life to the fullest or did you just get by? Did you let Jesus into your day?

Now remember the verse out of Hebrews. If He's not our foundation, then how are we going to find life and find it more abundantly? Focus on what never changes.

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

(to be continued) ---Johnie