My Train of Thought

A thought occurred to me the other day, kinda based on some of the stuff in the movie Interstellar, and thinking about Jesus on the Cross. I know that seems weird to combine but in the movie, they make some rather lame claim that people can evolve into 5th dimensional beings. I personally think that is very absurd, this is not the place for that, at least right now. However, what struck out at me was that when (spoiler!!) the main character was in the black hole, he could see all the various moments in time as well as alternate timelines where the choices where made differently. He was able to scroll through time to find the right moments. All of time was right before him.

Then because it was the Christmas season I was thinking about Jesus dying for us on the cross. That he died for everyone's sin, giving the ability for anyone to have their sin washed away. My train of thought kinda went like this. (This is greatly abbreviated, truth is this probably took most of my dad's sermon.) God used thousands of years to line up everything so Jesus could be born so that he could line everything up so that he could die, that would line everything up for the salvation of the world.

Then I was thinking about how God can probably look at any point in time whenever he wants it, since he is not bound to the annoying arrow of time. Then I thought back about how the guy could see all the various timelines and scroll through any time he wanted. Like at this very second in time, there are for each person, three options before them. God knows what will happen in each one, but he waits to see which option we take. After all, we do have freewill. Then my thoughts come back to the Cross.

In all of creation, it is probably the only point in time that could not change. All of everything that ever could have been was choked down to this single moment in time. This one day was the defining moment of all of mankind's existence. All freewill funneled down on to Jesus. Then everything expanded back up into the whatever it looked like before. Then, since I had been picturing time looking like a pencil, where the middle of it was very narrow, not tapered in the middle, just a hairline break in it, and it was only connected by an atom, I thought of God holding time in his had just looking at all the stuff that has and will happen.

The Crucifixion would be time 0.

That thought got me back to how God was outside of time, not bound to it, and since all of time was something that he is aware of at all times, that the death of Jesus was, in a way, happening all the time. Which then got me thinking about how much I sin, and as much as I hate to say it, big of a sinner I am.

My heart is full of sin, as is my mind and my body. It constantly works against what I want, to fulfill it's own sinful desire. And since I am a sinner every day, Jesus is dying every day, stuck in that single moment of time, that one atom of time, because of me. Because of you. Because of us all. Maybe that is a deep hidden meaning when Jesus said:

“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."

 If Jesus is dying at any given moment one chooses to look at the tiny bit of the pencil, then it would make sense that his followers also die every day. Paul said:

"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

 So if we were crucified with Christ, and it is not us who live, but Christ in us, then we are surely to do it every day at least, if not every moment of every day.

Then after my thoughts began to wander toward tacos. I do love tacos.