RIVER OF TIME

There is a river of the future flowing into the past.

Each new moment starts fresh and clean and sparkling, but as it flows the stream picks up debris and pollutants.

What had begun as a life-giving freshness becomes a death-laden current. To drift on Time’s current is to dwell in the sewage of the past, but to press forward into the clean, new day is sweet and stimulating.

In another sense, man is drowning in that swiftly speeding flow. Like all other drowning ones, he grasps wildly for something—anything—to lift him from the drowning current.

One portrayal of the third world is a mass of people with their arms reaching up and eyes pleading for something to help them—for a lifeline to pull them out.

One fact is evident. Whatever would save them must not be itself subject to that same current. It cannot be captive to Time.

It must be eternal.

Such a saver—make that Savior—does exist! Jesus the Word.

He said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my Word shall never pass away.” His Word is that eternal something to rescue drowning humanity.

Even human references can confirm the eternality of God’s Word. Consider: the greatest deed would die in the memory of those who experienced it if there were no words to capture and convey the story.

“And the Word was made Flesh…” God was reduced to a form man could grasp and cling to and be lifted out of the murky eddies of destruction.

View now another aspect. If in the natural we take a device called a dam, anchor it outside the river’s flow, and force the flow through the channels in the dam, the river’s force will turn dynamos and generate enough power to light cities.

Please grasp the next thought.

What would happen if we, being anchored in Jesus, would span Time—stand abreast of each new moment—and channel the flow through us?

We’d be able to speed the light of the Gospel to this darkened earth.

Would not rivers of living water flow from our innermost being?

Let’s carefully, anxiously embrace each new moment with arms wide open.