Anachronistic

 

Anachronistic

Anachronistic – something that is against time.

     What would Jesus have done with a remote control?  Aimed at the winds and waves, He could have fast forwarded the whole episode and met the disciples on the other side without getting His feet wet.  Mose, the glad opportunity to skip the golden calf, may have proceeded to making the tabernacle.  Elijah could have saved himself a run-a-way by suddenly anointing the triplet.

     What would we like to skip in our lives?  Taken out of time and dissolved, we could avert the consequences of our actions.  No more walking through the mud once we have fallen off the wagon.  Mom would hand us another clean pair like it never happened.  God doesn’t work like that.  Prison is good.  Confinement for those who haven’t learned to control themselves.  A man truly reaps what he sows.

     Actions, consequences, and learned lessons make us what we are today.  Removing any component makes the cycle anachronistic.  We learn by trial and error.  Bruises mark our flesh as wisdom is tattooed in our spirits.  All of Mankind follows this pattern.  However, Christ was the anomaly.

Hebrews 5:8 “Though He were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which He suffered;”

Hebrews 4:15b” but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”

      Thus, it wasn’t through guessing did He arrive at refinement becoming the perfect sacrifice.  Successive washings did not make the Lamb’s wool white.  Jesus was spotless in spirit and made His run in perfection.

     Tempted in all ways:

Matthew 26:39b “Oh my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.”

     Jesus voluntarily subjected Himself to the created system.  Time now inflicted His body with pain.  Seconds to hours, Jesus elected to hang.  Satan tauntingly held the remote in His face.  The fast forward light blinked.  But even in agony, Jesus held His thumb on the play button wanting all to complete before He gave up the Ghost.

     He did not rush anything.  His path set on fire; He walked to Hell.

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