Advent 2007
Time Traveler

Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd made time traveling entertainment in the movie “Back to the Future”. They went back in time and experienced events that occurred decades prior with hopes of influencing the outcomes which would in turn influence their lives in the present. This is an oft used theme in fantasy literature. In 2 Peter 3:8, Peter tells us that time is meaningless to our Lord. He sees yesterday, today and tomorrow as now. However, Jesus Christ was the ultimate time traveler because He entered time from eternity. He did not move forward or backwards along the timeline of human existence. He punctured time from timelessness. And, this travel into time did affect the events of time forever. He came from eternity to time to save sinners like you and me. While we were yet sinners, He loved us enough to die for us [Rom 5:8]. He left the perfect love that was His with the Father and the Holy Spirit in eternity to take on our flesh and become sin itself. Because He lived a perfect and sinless life as the God-Man, we obtain His righteousness in exchange for our sin. Jesus Christ, God Himself, did not consider Himself above the task to be the sacrificial servant for sinners [Phil 2: 6-8]. To do that He became a time traveler. Some day each of us will be time travelers. We will pass out of time to timelessness. Eternity awaits us all. No one knows their departure time. This Advent as you contemplate the Babe in the manger, remember He came into time from eternity for a reason. Have you booked your reservation with the ultimate time traveler? The only One Who can provide for you safe passage to a heavenly home in eternity.