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I remember watching a movie as a boy; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Time Machine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>. The movie, I later discovered, was loosely based on the H.G Wells book of the same name. The movie version has been remade a couple of times; the last version in 2002. If you like old fashioned science fiction, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pretty good story.<\/p>\n The idea of traveling through time fascinated me as a kid \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 honestly, it fascinates me as an adult. The problem with the hero in the story (as far as I was concerned) was that he always traveled into the future. If it was me, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d travel into the past. If I traveled into time past I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be able to fix what went wrong and then, by the time I caught up with the present, things would be a lot better than they are because I had a chance to go back and fix them.<\/p>\n If I could go back in time, and if I was able to remember what happened when, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d warn people of impending disaster \u00e2\u20ac\u201c natural and man-made. By knowing what bad was going to happen in advance, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have a chance of preventing it from happening, or at least warning others to prepare for some terrible event I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop.<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d also know who was going to win the World Series and the Super Bowl. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not great at remembering things like that and, besides, it would take the fun out of watching.<\/p>\n Privately, if I was able to travel back in time, I could undo a lot of the dumb things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done in life. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d finish college at twenty-two instead of dropping out at nineteen. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d take my time and energy and youth a lot more seriously. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d put more into the days I wasted. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d do the things I should have done then, instead of regretting not doing them now. Mostly, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d not say and do the things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve said and done over a lifetime that have hurt others. If I could go back in time and start fresh I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be a lot better person.<\/p>\n I was thinking about time travel and what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d do differently when it occurred to me that, because of my human nature, even if I could travel back in time, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no guarantee I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d behave better. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pretty good chance that going back in time wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fix anything because it would still be me<\/em> who was going back; a time machine isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to fix that. Like Forrest Gump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s momma said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stupid is as stupid does.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n Once I gave up on the notion that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d behave differently if I was given another shot at the past and gave up the notion of a science fiction time machine, it occurred to me that a real time machine might exist.<\/p>\n A real<\/em> time machine?<\/p>\n Yeah, I know it sounds like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m back in science fiction land again, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve discovered a real time machine. This time machine doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go back in time, it goes forward \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but not super fast like the one in the H.G. Wells story; the real<\/em> time machine moves forward in real<\/em> time.<\/p>\n That was my first mistake in thinking about time machines, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no reverse gear; just like time, they only move forward, never backward (H.G. Wells was right on that point). My second mistake was in my thinking about time itself. I thought going back<\/em> into the past would fix my present<\/em> situation. But I learned, since I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go back in time, that I can only fix where I am now so that as I go forward I can look back and not regret where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been.<\/p>\n Confused yet?<\/p>\n Time only moves forward and my time machine only moves forward \u00e2\u20ac\u201c at the same rate as time. I can time travel into tomorrow \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but, since my time machine operates in real time, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take me about twenty-four hours. The only way to affect my future<\/em> is by what I do in my present<\/em>. What I do today will have an effect on where I find myself tomorrow. So I can change tomorrow by what I do today. I can fix my future-present<\/em> by how I behave in my present-present<\/em>.<\/p>\n I also discovered that my time machine has a fine-tune adjustment; even though future time extends out forever, present time happens right now. If I want this time travel thing to really work right, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to be at the controls moment by moment.<\/p>\n Wishing for a time machine that would fix my past<\/em> in order to improve<\/em> my present was all wrong. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t travel back in time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c only forward. When that finally clicked in my head I realized I was already<\/em> traveling in time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I was traveling forward! I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go back and fix my past, but I can move forward and create a better past as I go.<\/p>\n I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t undo all the dumb and hurtful stuff I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done and said in the past. Thankfully, God knows that and He can undo<\/em> my past by forgiving me and giving me a clean slate today. My job is to travel forward<\/em> in time, doing what I know is right and not doing what I know is wrong, creating my past as I go and not regretting a minute of it.<\/p>\n I admit, this whole time travel concept can be confusing; but now that I know which direction it goes in I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll travel with it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c right here and now.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old is gone, the new has come!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> (2 Corinthians 5:17)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I tell you, now is the time of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favor, now is the day of salvation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (2 Corinthians 6:2) I remember watching a movie as a boy; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Time Machine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The movie, I later discovered, was loosely based on the H.G Wells book of the same name. 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