2 Peter 3:8 But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.

Time travel has always fascinated me. I’ve enjoyed science fiction, and movies like “Back to the Future,” “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and “I’ll FollowYou Down” stir my imagination about all the fun – and danger – of time travel.

As if. We have no time machines. We are walking through time in one direction, at one speed. Though it does not always seem quite like this. So, I guess my ‘science mind’ sometimes wonders about the God I relate to, as if my Master can be everywhere and every time at once. A friend sometimes prays for people with this phrase, asking Jesus to “reach back through time and….” Indeed, God touches our past: heals, reveals, and makes sense of things.

Looking to the unknown future, Peter and other early disciples understood that God’s life in time is not like ours. A thousand years like a day, and vice versa. The promises of good things for the world are still holy promises, no matter what our watches and calendars tell us today.

PRAYER: Alpha and Omega – Timeless Christ – to You we turn in this season of waiting and preparing. Show us how scripture is full of special time, not simple chronology in order. Give us patience, day by day. Amen.

-Jeff G. White