Photo ©2024 by Amber Jurgensen
Commentary ©2024 by Russell Jurgensen
Thursday, June 13, 2024
This sundial at the Griffith Observatory in California uses a circle with a wire passing through the center of the ring. The shadow of the wire lands somewhere on the circle to indicate the time. When this picture was taken, it was about 5:55pm. It is too fuzzy to see in the image, but the circle has hour and minute marks so the time can be read to the minute.
Time is a mystery that science continues to ponder. But time also has an emotional aspect that draws people in. What is it about the limited time in our lives that makes people yearn to revisit certain periods of time? Or what makes them reach for the future and the promise it holds?
No one seems to really understand time or what produces it. However, Jesus speaks authoritatively about time.
Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.
John 6:58
Jesus understands the very nature of time and promises that we will live with him forever.
There may also be an element of time travel built into the Bible.
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:51,52
Loved ones who have died will be raised and people will be changed. It is like a time reset, almost like traveling back in time. Except it will be the future that God promises. Let’s put our faith in the God who created time and fully understands time.