Yeah, that would really be cool. You would be able to see your test questions before they actually came out; and would see what was for lunch before time so you could decide whether to eat, or whether it was safer to just buy takeout.
I know someone who had that power on earth before he died. Yeah..... it is Jesus, ..but just look at this with me for a minute.
I mean, it must have really been cool right? He told a friend of his, Peter by name, to go catch a fish and take the gold coin in its mouth to pay for their taxes. He had probably seen that a fish that had randomly swallowed a coin was going to swim by at the exact same moment that Peter would reach the river after he had been sent. Or the time when he gave his friends direction to a place (the Bible never recorded he had been there before) to meet a person who would just happen to be passing by with a jug of water on his neck, to ask him to meet his master so they could have dinner in his house. Really Cool.
But, you see, things like that had a downside. When it was time for him to die, he knew exactly how it was going to be. The pain from the whips that he was flogged with wasnt going to be a shock, but he knew exactly how excruciating the pain would be. when the pharisee who professed to serve his father gathered spit in his mouth, he knew exactly how it would land on his face, and when.
When the flagellas were used to tear him apart, he was probably shaking in fear, the human side of him (which at the time was all of him, because he had to become completely human. He didnt even have the backing of his father anymore...), because he remembered into the future how exactly it would land on his back, how much skin and blood each lash would remove, at what angle it would fall, and how 39 lashes would transform him from a man into a monster (he was virtually unrecognizable that he was a human)
He knew how heavy his cross would be. He had probably watched that particular tree grow. He knew he wouldnt be able to carry it all the way outside Jerusalem. He also knew of a man called Simon of Cyrene. He could remember that all his friends who said they loved him would abandon him when he would need them the most, so that their lives would be spared. He knew Judas would sell him, and would sadly die without repenting.
He remembered, even as he walked to Golgotha, how the nails would go into his hands, and how he would be stripped and disgraced. He remembered how he would carry our sins, our fears, our sickness and our shame. He remembered that even as he did this, there would still be people that would lookmat him with hatred. He remembered all this before it actually happened.
He remembered how he would really be thirsty, and ask for a drink, only to be offered bile instead. He remembered that he would have to face Satan with the world's sin on his back and descend down into hades as a prisoner. He remembered how the spear would be thrust into his side and all that would gush out was water, because he had no more blood to give. Every single ounce would be drained. HE REMEMBERED EVERYTHING.
And then, he also remembered that you would someday come across this article, and get to know about him. He remembered you laughing; healthy, clean, stressfree, at peace. Free from destruction and illnesses and fear and regrets. Full of love, and eventually his friend.
Yes, he remembered. And so, at that instant when God asked who would willingly go down to the world and face all these, he remembered and said "I Will Go. For your Sake"
When the bible says that God loves you, please do not take that fact for granted, because you'll come to see that his love is different than what the world defines love to be, and is so much better. Let him show you...
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