Film Friday Ruth and Megan run their own vintage shop, but they source their stock from an unusual place. Or rather places. They have acquired a car which can time travel. Not a DeLorean but a fairground dodgem car. And so they can visit any place in history, snaffle a few trinkets and bring them back to sell in their shop. Old weapons, crockery, clothing and jewellery. They nab all kinds of things. However, they soon discover that messing with the space time continuum (see Back to the Future) has serious implications.
Lots of movies feature the notion of Time Travel. It remains a fascinating subject for us. Perhaps it’s the notion of being able to go back and change things for the better, or just dip in and out of history without having to stay there. Perhaps, like the thought of going to Mars, it’s the possibility of getting away from this world and the Now. A friend of mine once gave me a great quote about that – ‘God is always present, the problem is, I am not.’
In some ways we time travel with our phones now, watching old clips, escaping this moment by filling our vision with other times and places.
No doubt Moses would have liked to escape from the monotony and disappointment of guiding sheep across a desert everyday, after having once been a prince in Egypt. But when he met God and asked his name the reply was simply – ‘I am.’ See Exodus 3 v 14. God was in the present moment. Here with us in the great NOW. We often fear the future, but in Luke 12 v 11-12, Jesus encouraged his disciples with the promise that the Holy Spirit would be with them, giving them what they needed when we needed it. And this is surely true for us. God is with us in the present, and when we arrive in those future moments he is with us then and able to help us through those moments.
Thank you lord for this moment now, and this one, and this one, and this one, and this one. It’s not easy for us to appreciate the NOW, our minds flit back and forward from the past to the future and back again. So please help us to have moments of being present with you in this time, able to appreciate your presence and care and strength for today. Thank you, Amen.
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