Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
The Future is something everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whoever he is, whatever he does. CS Lewis
Life's not made up of the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
Time travel is one of the favorite inventions of fiction. Ever since HG Wells' The Time Machine - and probably before - people have been interested in the possibility of jumping into the past to some big event or into the future to see what's going to happen next. Who wouldn't want to be present at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, or with the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, or watching the Red Sea part, or Resurrection Morning? That's why I'm sure time travel will remain in the world of fiction. Otherwise, the thousands of significant events of history would have been crowded with on-lookers and sight-seers - and rubberneckers are not known for quietly staying in the background! (Hey, Moses, would you do that again? Everybody smile and wave this time!)
We'd all love to skip some parts of our lives. Dentist visits. Flu. Civics class. Anything painful or boring - or painfully boring - brings up the delicious fantasy of jumping to the end. The movie Click explores that fantasy and its major downside, that life is made up of moments and you never know when you'll find the ones that take your breath away. Take Jacob, for instance.
He was on a journey he didn't want to be on. He was not known for his adventurous spirit or out-doorsy ways, but his mother was concerned that his brother was planning a Cain and Abel reenactment, so she bundled him off for a visit to her old home place. On the way, he camped out at the ruins of a place called Luz, and had a dream: Angels were going up to and coming down from Heaven, and God passed on to him the Promise of Abraham.
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” Genesis 28:16
I don't imagine he was expecting to meet God on this journey. Most of us never do, but the Lord is the Master of perfect timing. Jacob's little vacation was going to be the defining point of his life, because God had a plan. Did you know that when God has a plan, even the apparently insignificant moments of your life - or better yet, the disastrous ones - can be charged with meaning and purpose?
And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good. Romans 8:28
I'm not saying (and neither is the Bible) that "there is a reason for everything", or even "it's all going to work out". What the Bible IS saying is that for those who are on HIS side, God is working things out with an eye to Eternity.
He has made everything beautiful in its time...Ecclesiastes 3:11
So? Enjoy the moment, what's about to happen may matter more than you know!
