I have been reading through The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams again, and as it began to talk about time travel, I was hit with a thought. How do I effect time? Is time travel even possible? All these thoughts came flooding to me. At first, I thought of a simple time line. A straight line where I am just a dot in it. I felt that just couldn’t be right, because then everyone would have the same point of view. Time is more 3D, its not just looking ahead and behind, its looking up and down, left and right, as well as forward and backwards. Depending on where you are heading, your view will change. And as you change your direction, who you effect will also change.
This is a simple cat 5 cable used for computer networking. You can see the different strands that wrap around each other. That’s how I started to think about time. We are only active in a small segment of time, that interacts with the other wires around us. Everything that I do, affects the wires that are around me. But I never intersect with them. Sure, I will touch those around me, and in some cases what I do, how I move, will affect those around me, but I will never truly intersect with them.
There is someone who does. Jesus. He can move around, behind, ahead of, next to, and inside of us, affecting us like no one else can. He can change your path, and make it straight.
I have been thinking this over the last hour or so, and just felt I needed to write. I know I often wonder, “God, why am I here, right now?” And most times, there is no clear answer. Don’t get me wrong, I love where I am. Good job, great church, great friends. And I am always busy, with church, work, and friends. But there are just some moments when I wonder, what is next. Certainly, it can’t stay this way forever. Its far to comfortable. So, what is next? I don’t know, do you? I know there is someone who does, who is constantly guiding and caring for each of my footsteps. Its nice to know.
Not especially profound, how I have written it, is it? Remember though, Jesus isn’t doing this for some small segment of time, like we are, but he is doing it for all time, for everyone.
