A few years ago, I thought about throwing some items in a bucket and calling it my bucket list, for this seems to be the popular thing for us to do in order to achieve some goals before we kick the bucket.
In consideration of this matter, I discovered the only item in my bucket list worth talking about is time: because time all we have in this world and time does not belong to us. For we are simply passing through time, after which we die and then arrive in another place, and in another time.
Jesus came from another time and from another place. And from the moment the Lord was born in Bethlehem, men have reset clocks and calendars according to the time of His birth, and not the birth of any other person.
The life of Jesus Christ on earth changed human history forever. This change cannot be reversed, and future changes from heaven cannot be stopped.
If a place called heaven is really all that important to people, why is the only time many people desire to talk about heaven is when they gather at the feet of dead people, such as at funerals or memorial services? And after hearing some sweet and tender words spoken about the dearly departed, they trot along their ways to whatever they were doing before death interrupted their time.
Could it be that the only thing many people know about heaven comes from words they hear from people? Add this to the power that abides in imagination and many people will believe that heaven will be a place according to their own minds and that everything there will be there just for them and just the way they want things to be.
In other words, heaven is a place that can be manufactured in the minds of people: as well as an imaginary way to get there.
Therefore, it should be easy to see that many people believe time belongs to them on earth as well as the time that abides in another place after death.
The name of Jesus, however, is known more in heaven and in earth than any person that is named.
"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:" (John 1: 10-12)
Jesus is the author of all things visible and invisible, and the authority of His kingdom has no borders, no boundaries, no limitations, and no end.
Jesus is also the author of another time, another place.
"That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Philippians 2: 10-11)
In consideration of this matter, I discovered the only item in my bucket list worth talking about is time: because time all we have in this world and time does not belong to us. For we are simply passing through time, after which we die and then arrive in another place, and in another time.
Jesus came from another time and from another place. And from the moment the Lord was born in Bethlehem, men have reset clocks and calendars according to the time of His birth, and not the birth of any other person.
The life of Jesus Christ on earth changed human history forever. This change cannot be reversed, and future changes from heaven cannot be stopped.
If a place called heaven is really all that important to people, why is the only time many people desire to talk about heaven is when they gather at the feet of dead people, such as at funerals or memorial services? And after hearing some sweet and tender words spoken about the dearly departed, they trot along their ways to whatever they were doing before death interrupted their time.
Could it be that the only thing many people know about heaven comes from words they hear from people? Add this to the power that abides in imagination and many people will believe that heaven will be a place according to their own minds and that everything there will be there just for them and just the way they want things to be.
In other words, heaven is a place that can be manufactured in the minds of people: as well as an imaginary way to get there.
Therefore, it should be easy to see that many people believe time belongs to them on earth as well as the time that abides in another place after death.
The name of Jesus, however, is known more in heaven and in earth than any person that is named.
"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:" (John 1: 10-12)
Jesus is the author of all things visible and invisible, and the authority of His kingdom has no borders, no boundaries, no limitations, and no end.
Jesus is also the author of another time, another place.
"That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Philippians 2: 10-11)
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