WHERE'S MY JET-PACK?

Well, here it is officially, 2009. I have one question I have been thinking about lately:

Where is my jet-pack?

Let me explain . . .

As a young boy growing up on cartoons, whenever they showed “the future” — and understand that back in the late ’50s, the future was only 30 years away — everyone flew around in jet-packs. You know, George Jetson-style. But here we are, still lumbering about in our cars. Not much has changed.

For a time, especially in the ’50’s and ’60s, there was this utopian dream of a better world. We were told that everything would be better in the future. Now we have lived long enough to know that despite our advances in technology, mankind will always mess things up.

Ah, but one day the future we all long for will come. With new bodies, on a new earth, ruled over by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, I guarantee you we will fly! Boy, I am looking forward to that day.

That is what Jesus taught us to pray for in the Lord’s Prayer, when he instructed us to say, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.”

Until then, I have a few suggestions for what we need to do—

Live your life well

We want our lives to count during our short time here on planet Earth, especially as we are now officially in 2009. At Gatetree, we are currently in a message series titled “iTruths for an iPod Generation,” which will focus on the basic things all Christians need to know in order to live well in 2009. If you can’t hear the series in person, you can go to our homepage and find it there.

Read through the Bible this year

Having just completed reading the entire Bible in 2008, I’m going to do it again and I suggest you join me.

And finally…don’t look back

Philippians 3:14-16 reads, “Friends, don’t get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back. So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your God will clear your blurred vision—you’ll see it yet! Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it.”