Back in time, System Restore



Our day off, usually a Wednesday, is nearly always spent at Cineworld.

Sometimes we can fit three films into one day!

Meshiel has an unlimited card and I have two pay as you go Orange phones, just for going to the cinema.

Well yesterday we watched a film called About Time. Amazing!  It had us in tears and it had us laughing.

All the men of one family had the gift of time travel, not to the future, just back to their lived past. They would go into a dark cupboard, clench their fists and think of a time that they wanted to travel  back to, and away back they went.

Often they used the gift mealy to relive a moment they had just fouled up, making things right again. Often it was things that had been said, that shouldn’t have been.

In the letter of James and chapter 3 he talks about how the tongue can cause so much trouble and how it needs to be tamed.

O how easy it would be, if like in the film we could just lock ourselves in the cupboard for a moment, coming back out to live that moment again, say things differently and see how sweet life would be.

How often do we sit and wonder what life would have been like, if we hadn’t made the mistakes we had along the way. If only!

In the film, Tim, the main character, tries to go back in time to help his sister recover her life, having made some bad choices, but he finds by changing her past it impacts on his present in a dramatic way.

On a computer it has always wise to set a restore point to a time when you know everything was working as it should be. To a time before you let viruses in by venturing to non safe websites or opening spam mail offering you the world for nothing, this then corrupts the whole computer. It’s easy; you do a system restore back to that point, and lo! The computer is back and everything is good! But where are my photos that I took last week?

 Lost! Because you can’t turn back time!

We are the people we are because of the people we have been.

We might not like some of the things we have done in the past, not one of us would like our whole lives shown as a film, but there is a way to be restored.

You see there was a restore point created in history. I was a Friday, about 3 o’clock in the afternoon.

Therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Him the law of the Spirit of life sets me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8 1.2

In Christ I am a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come 2 Corinthians 5 17  

The restore point was and is, the grace of God being poured through Jesus to us on that first Good Friday.

We do not have the gift of returning to a point in time where we can change the way life has gone for us, but through Jesus we can come to terms with who we are today, and in Him feel no condemnation for the past.

So what of the future?

Is it happy ever after?

We will still make mistakes, and other people’s mistakes will impact on our lives, but we can be assured that the restore point is forever.

I need to restore every day.

PS "About Time" is an unmissable film and I haven't given much away