You might go down to...
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You might go down to a railroad station and look at the shining bands of steel on which the train travels. Today, of course, they might be rusty bands! But if someone asked what you saw, you would say, "I saw the railroad tracks." Really, you didn't. What you saw was one little section of tracks that stretch for thousands of miles from east to west, north to south. Or you might stand on the shore of a river or of the ocean and look out over the body of water. "I see the river," or "I see the ocean," you'd say. But again, you didn't. What you saw in either instance was one little section of a vast expanse. Nobody could really see the whole river or the whole ocean. Similarly, we often look at the period that Jesus Christ spent on earth, as recorded in the gospels, and say that this is the life of Christ. How wrong! It is at most one tiny segment of his life. He was "begotten of the Father from eternity," and he lives and reigns forever. We know only one tiny fraction of his life.
