I just watched a lot of films recently and some were based on theories that are improbable, like Christopher Nolan's Inception staring Leonardo DiCaprio and Life on Mars (not a film, but a BBC series ) by Matthew Graham, Tony Jordan and Ashley Pharoah, and today I saw Source Code by Duncan Jones staring Jake Gyllenhaal. All amazing stories, where time is defined as a virtually modifiable entity.
Some portray it slightly different than the other, but eventually they tell stories of different realities and worlds that are different just by actions taken by an individual, and for those among my readers who this is thought intriguing, you should also consider reading things such as the
grandfather paradox, and read and watch films like the time travellers wife and N dimension, alternate reality or parallel universe and stuff like that. I really enjoy these thought provoking and yet mind baffling ideas.
It is like we are wired within our selves that we must break the bondage of being adjusted to time and time based life we live. To think about it, don't we all want in some way or other just go back in time and redo some things, like may be tell our selves to study harder or tell our selves that Google is where we should invest our money in? Or better spend more time watching birds .... But some are more meaningful decisions, like accepting our mistakes and knowing God a bit early, and things like that.
CS Lewis in Reflections on the Psalms says this and i have quoted at least once in my blog posts ...
We are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. “How he’s grown!” we exclaim, “How time flies!” as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed; unless of course the fish were destined to become, one day, a land animal.
and like Lewis said we have this entire thought on how things are to be, and when they have to be just because we are so accustomed to time, but also at the same time we worry and are shocked most often at how time flies, because we look to a day deep within when time be longer an existing entity. I mean if we were to one day, die, but then find ourselves in a place where time ceased to exist and what mattered more was the true reality of absolute certainty, a place called heaven, where we were not forced to decide our lives based on what to do next, won't that be a really good dream?. And to think about it, not just as a wishful fantasy or an hyperbole but a hope that we are certain of, just because one man did it, and many saw him, ate with him and passed accurate details of the event, then isn't life a celebration of the present and a training for the future?
More importantly, to even think of it in apostle Paul's
word in
Romans 8:22-23, we are actually groaning to be redeemed to a state where God is opening a way for our ultimate return to him and his presence in our lives. Just imagine, that one day you would be in front of God, no in his hands, on his lap and looking at time as the same way you look at a stick and say its long or short, or like a tape, pulling it to make it longer or shorter, and doing things that you at this moment call an impossibility, and who knows, like the song by Mercy Me "
i can only imagine" ... we could only imagine at this moment at how we would react, but yet we are now certain that we are one day going to meet him face to face.
amen ....
Subz
Comments