why not take a moment

Stop for just one minute and take a deep breath. Really. Stop reading, close your eyes and take a deep breath. What did you think about when you closed you eyes? What was the first thing that popped in your head? Did you imagine yourself on a picture perfect beach, or did you think about the person you are mad at? Did you think about a situation you are concerned about or did you see an image from the video game you have been playing for 4 hours?

Stop for just one minute and take a deep breath. Really, do it again. This time, close your eyes and think about 2007. Think about all of the different things that God allowed you to experience. Think about the joys, the fun, the bad, the changes. What did you learn this past year? Did you grow closer to God? How? What were your favorite moments?

Stop for just one minute and take a deep breath. Really….last one. This time, close your eyes and dream about 2008. What are some of your goals for this new year? What are the things you know you will need God’s help with? What are you excited about? What are 5 things you want to accomplish this year? How will you live with more passion for Jesus in 2008?

A Memory of the Future: defined

You may be saying…how can this be? A memory of the future….there is no such thing. Well, may the cynic inside you be forever silenced. Time travel is real. Hiro Nakamura and Peter Petrelli have memories of the future all the time. If you don’t know those names, check out Heroes on NBC. Well, even though teleportation seems so fictional, there are apparently particles at the sub-atomic level that can teleport! Rob Bell, in his everything is spiritual tour, mentions that there are these particles (I forget the name), below the quark and lepton level, that appear in one place and then reappear in another place without traveling the distance in between. Crazy. Hearing this encouraged a little further reading and apparently there is a professor at the Univ. or Waterloo who is saying that we could teleport. It would be like a fax machine where the original actually disappears…a quantum ifax…I gotta get one of those. We probably just don’t have computers and the energy necessary to copy the amount of complex data contained in matter… I think once Apple comes out with their next OS we will be very close.

Anyway, back to defining my title. Though it seems that my title implodes on itself, think harder. My title is a constant reminder and challenge to remember what God has promised about the future through the Scriptures. We must remember what God has said is coming down the road…in the future. We must remember what He has committed to. God has promised that He will be our healer, our peace, our hope, our life. Through Jesus, He has promised us freedom from the sin that pollutes our lives and joy in the midst of our pain. 

The cool thing about it is that we are in the future. God’s promises have been given…past tense. That means that we are seeing His promises fulfilled today. God’s promises are open-ended and he is so generous that he does not stop after fulfilling His promise just once. He keeps healing, and keeps restoring peace and keeps making all things new. It is so exciting to know that there are still more promises to come true in the future. We must remember.

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