Time

In this age of technological advances, scientific research and innumerable methods of communication, time is the final frontier.

No, space is no longer the final frontier, not really. Pop culture is actually quite an accurate indicator of this progression. Thirty or forty years ago, we had the original Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica on TV, Star Wars in theatres and a real-life man on the moon.

These days, it's shows like Lost, Heroes and a new series I watched earlier tonight, Flash Forward. This newest entry is based on the notion that everyone in the world blacked out at the same time, for the same amount of time and during that time experienced glimpses of the future.

You see, time is the one thing none of us can get a handle on. No matter how much science, how much intellect or even spiritualism we apply, time is beyond us. We can't stop it from marching on into the future and we can't change what has already happened in the past.

The Bible offers us little more on the subject. It actually confirms time's elusiveness:

Isaiah 46:10: I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Ecclesiastes 3:11: He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Matthew 24:36: No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

All we are offered is the knowledge of who it is that controls time as stated simply in Revelation 22:13: I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

And if we remember that truth in the present, we can live without being bound to our past, as in Psalm 103:12: as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

And we can also face the future, certain of who will still be there.