Concept of Time and Your Walk with God

I love the Cinemas! It's the one place I get the opportunity to escape into a world of fantasy...thriller...romance or sci-fi. The kind of movies that always intrigue me are those that suggests the possibility of Time Travel. Movies like Back to the future, The terminator, The lake house, Time cop, The time traveler's wife, The time machine, X-men (the days of future past) and so much more.

The one that was quit astounding and mind blowing was X-men (the days of future past)...about how Wolverine traveled to the past at a strategic time to galvanize and lead the X-men team of the past to stop the invention of a robotic weapon; which apparently evolved into a killing machine and obliterated the mutant race in the future. Woow!Imagine that....if you could go back in time to alter a sequence of events so that you can have a better future which supposedly was threatened. But is this possible?

CONCEPT OF TIME

Time is a very important dimension....a dimension where events can be ordered or classified from the past through the present into the future. Time also helps to measure the duration of events and intervals between them. In other words, without time man wouldn't be able to effectively quantify or measure events hence making man a walking zombie. In fact, time is so vital that without it, life would have no meaning or purpose and man would just be a bag of floating potatoes.

Think about it! Without time, what would be the time now... how would man be able to quantify his successes...how would he be able to tell his age....how would he relate with his past, present and future....what would be the past, present or future....how would he be able to measure up or quantify his successes or achievements??

There have been philosophical attempts, over the century, to understand Time. Does it exist independently...what accounts for its unidirectional flow...does time, other than the present moment, exists???

Now the are two main contrasting views about time that has caused a clashing arguments between prominent philosophers. The first is the Newtonian time by Sir Isaac Newton who explained that time is a dimension of its own independent of events; a place where events occurs in sequence. In other words, Sir Isaac explained that absolute time and space, of its own, flows or moves, without external influence or physical events but a stage setting or backdrop within which physical phenomena occurs. The second theory was by Gottfried Liebniz and Immanuel Kant who expressed that time is not an event or a thing hence cannot be traveled.

Its important to note that, although different views, these great philosophers had a common ground: Time cannot be influenced or altered...OR CAN IT? The only way to fully comprehend a thing or phenomenon is by delving into the mind of a BEING that hasn't just existed before the thing in question but created the thing. So let see what God has to say...

GOD AND TIME

No better place to start from than from Genesis! We all know the famous story of creation. The bible say...In the beginning God created heaven and earth. The earth was without shape and form and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep. The spirit of God was moving or brooding over the face of the water. AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT; AND THERE WAS LIGHT(Gen1:1-3). It's funny because God didn't create the sun, stars and moon (heavily bodies man uses to quantify time) until the fourth day (Genesis 1:14 AMP-And God said let the be light in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs and tokens of God's provident care and to mark seasons, days and years). So God didn't create time until the fourth day.

Now if He created the sun and stars and moon, that emanates light, on the fourth day; what is this LIGHT He created on the first day? OR What is this dimension He created on the first day before He created the dimension, wherein man exists, called time?

Remember the first miracle Jesus performed? His reply to His mum when she asked Him for help was:"Mother my time hasn't yet come!" (John 2:4 CEVUK). We see that despite this, Jesus still performed the miracle. In other words, our Lord and King who stepped out of eternity and emptied Himself of all divinity came on earth as a full man and subjecting Himself to time and space like you and I altered the course of time just so a couple could have a great wedding ceremony.

In fact, if you look closely you would discern that the miracle Jesus did on that day was in two folds. The first was He altered time to make it His time for the miracle and then he quickened the wine production process or made the process time travel. How did He quicken the wine production process? Naturally, the roots of the vines draw up water which over time (like 1 year) with the help of the sun and enzymes produces wine. Jesus asked them to fill the jars with water. This water, instead of a year, became wine in seconds.

Another miracle He performed was when He called Lazarus from the dead (John11). As the WORD of God, when Jesus stood in front of the tomb and shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus come out!(vs 43)", what He really did was to ascend time to a dimension (the first Light God established), where time itself didn't exists, to bring back Lazarus spirit; which had ascended beyond time..WOOOOW!!

Moses also experienced time alteration (Exodus 33:18-23)! Because of the mighty hand and miraculous signs of God against the Egyptian Moses wanted to know who this God was and dared to ask Him to show him His Glory. Now God said no man could see His face and live, so God said.."BEHOLD THERE IS A PLACE BESIDE ME, AND YOU SHALL STAND UPON THE ROCK..." (VS21 AMP). God went on to say that when He passes by He would cover him with His hand until He passes by so Moses would see His back.

Now it is important to note that God does't have a posterior end like man..so what Moses really saw was eternity past; immediately he saw this he then could write....IN THE BEGINNING...GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH...THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND SHAPE AND DARKNESS WAS OVER THE DEEP....AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD HOOVERED AROUND THE DEEP...AND HE SAID..LET THE BE LIGHT.....Time gave way for Moses and he was present at creation.

OTHER TIME ALTERING MOMENTS

John also; at the Island of Patmos. Jesus told him.."COME UP HERE, AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT MUST TAKE PLACE IN THE FUTURE" (REV4:1B).

When, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, Peter confessed the true name of Jesus..."AND HE SAID TO THEM, BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?AND PETER REPLIED, YOU ARE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD (MATT 16:15-17)". Christ means the messiah..the savior...the anointed one. It is key to note that this title wasn't legitimately bestowed to Jesus until after His death and resurrection. But under the influence of the Holy Spirit Peter was the only one that transcended time and saw this...that is why Jesus said man didn't reveal this to you but my Father in heaven.

The transfiguration of Jesus explains how Jesus step out of time into His true appearance in the reign of eternity (Luke9:28-30)

LET'S TIE THE NUTS

Whilst I understand and I respect that there are fixed and ordained times wherein man has been appointed to do certain things or attain to certain levels, I am a true believer of getting something that would naturally take 5 years in 5 mins.

There is a level in God...a level that can give us the capacity to alter time at will for His kingdom. This is the dimension that He established in Genesis1:3 (LET THERE BE LIGHT). If we continuously dwell in this Light (which is His mindset, His ideologies, His concepts) time wouldn't be a limiting factor. Your story would be like that of the one whose lost years is constantly being restored (Joel 2:25)

The only way Jesus, as the son of man, could alter time at will.....the reason why time gave way for Moses and he appeared at eternity past (time of creation) was because they operated in a dimension beyond time (in the reign of His Light).

You see, God is full of limitless power and the is no destination you think is your destiny, here on earth, that He cannot make you fulfill today and yet still give you a destiny. In other words you can live your future today and yet still have a future.

Remember what God told Moses..."BEHOLD THERE IS A PLACE BESIDE ME, AND YOU SHALL STAND UPON THE ROCK..." (VS21 AMP). There is a place for you beside God...a place filled with HIS LIGHT...a place where you would have the capacity to bring your future to your present and yet still have a future. A place where lost years or times can be resoted. That's the place WE ARE BEING CALLED TOO.

Because time is in His hands He is not just able to make up for lost times but able to step out into the future to bring your bessing of tomorrow to your now.