Neither past nor future
January 13, 2009 (Tuesday)
When we look at a distant celestial body through a telescope, we are actually seeing the past, because light left that place long ago and is just now arriving at earth. We are seeing things that happened thousands of years ago.
If you could travel back in time, where would you go and to what period of history? If you could go to the future, what time and place would you pick?
Well, don’t lose any sleep over it, because it isn’t likely to happen. If it could happen, however, just one trip by one person would change the world we live in. Everything you do, right down to the most insignificant action, affects the world and the people around you. Someone has dubbed this, “the butterfly effect,” the theory that even the flapping of a butterfly’s wings affects us.
Now, back to the question of where would you go and what date would you choose? Would you go to the past and try to undo something harmful, or would you go to the future and bring back a needed cure?
Time travel is the stuff of fiction. 2009 is our year. Now is our time. We make decisions every day that have some sort of impact. What you do is important. That being the case, perhaps our theme song as Christians should be the old chorus, “Only to be what He wants me to be every moment of every day. Yielded completely to Jesus alone every step of this pilgrim way. Just to be clay in the Potter’s hands, ready to do what His will demands. Only to be what He wants me to be, every moment of every day.”