Time Traveler, Part 4

What would it be like to travel back in time? What would you see? Who would you meet? What would they think about meeting you? Well, we cannot travel through time, but there is one who can. Jesus Christ is the Great Time Traveler. He is ever-present in past, present, and future. But what of man? Will man ever be able to leave the time frame he is carried along by?

Ponder some of your life experiences. Do you really think that you are the only person to feel what you feel, to have known what you know? In the 1500's one of your fore-fathers was a child, a teen, an adult. The same goes for the 2nd century. Same for the 5th century BC. All throughout what we call history, are people who were just like we are. They had fear, had courage, had rejection. They had to go through the awkwardness of growing up just like us too.

When you think about how much you have in common with all of mankind, then you begin to see the equality of the ages. We are all eternal spirits dwelling in aging flesh. We were there in Adam and Eve from the beginning. We are equals with our fathers from generation to generation.

My father died at 79 years, but he was once 33 like myself. He died frail, but was once strong like myself. If I were to know my father and my grandfather, my great-grandfather, even going back to the first generation, and met all my forefathers at my age, we would have so much in common. They would be working to support their families, dealing with aging parents and small children just like us. But they all died just like we will. In heaven however there will be no age. We will all be together then. Dying, aging flesh is bound in time, but our redemption goes beyond time.

Life is all about our personal relationship with our personal Maker. That has never changed throughout all history. The thing that will carry us from this life into eternity is that our relationship with God will not be interrupted. He is our Friend. What a peaceful and secure feeling knowing His love and forgiveness and knowing that it wasn't you who chose Him as much as Him who chose you! He surpasses time and predestined those he chooses, from all generations, to be His children!

Our brother Paul encourages with these eternal words of God, saying, "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified." (Romans 8:28-30)


---Johnie