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.