The film starts. A hero emerges and a battle ensues. The choreography and the special effects dazzle. Young eyes watch this, enraptured with the superhuman strength and magical powers of the hero. Most of us do this to one degree another. Maybe our imagination takes flight on an athletic field or a movie screen or a financial battlefield. These are dreams and they often collapse in the hardness of reality. Depressions and insecurities grow in the rubble where nothing grows anymore.
Unbeknownst to most of humanity....and tragically much of the church....an even greater hero truly exists. Books often appear in these movies that millions flock to for escape. A book was given by this hero....this King of Kings....and Lord of Lords....to those who know him. The words therein are not mere incantations even though they pierce the mind and the heart and the soul. If one should carry this book their whole life....if one should open it and read more than one opens one's mouth for sustenance....if one memorizes those words and meditates upon them.....then a door is opened beyond which is a celestial city....and a pilgrimage begins that all of the movies over all of the decades that have mesmerized multitudes, crumple and turn to dust blown away as chaff leaving only the grain of the seeds of the gospel of Jesus Christ which no writer and no film director and no special effects director could ever dream of producing in its glorious message that fills the mind with not imaginations but promises and hope and love and joy.
This is no Hollywood movie. One doesn't pay a few dollars, enjoy for three hours and return to reality. There are depressions but those are caused by a real villain. There are insecurities but when that book is opened they fly away. Every year someone comes up with something....a film....a scheme....a vision.....which they are often paid handsomely for by the way.....and every year we partake and are ultimately disappointed and trudge along until the new dream arrives.
Most reading these posts know of what I'm writing about. They've been given that book also, but many do not. To those readers outside of America who may have to look around and search to find this book.....it is literally everywhere here! Even young professing atheists have one somewhere, given to them by someone...sometime in their youth as a gift or a keepsake. Just about all bookstores have them in different sizes and colors and translations. Therein is a movie script in itself.....a land where villains roam free and the people have been subjugated but the power of the creator of every atom in this universe is always at least within one's grasp. There is an ending to the story in this book. A battle rages on a wide plain very near where Jesus Christ once walked and talked. Read of this friends. The light will come on only it won't be a theater light as a movie ends.
Unbeknownst to most of humanity....and tragically much of the church....an even greater hero truly exists. Books often appear in these movies that millions flock to for escape. A book was given by this hero....this King of Kings....and Lord of Lords....to those who know him. The words therein are not mere incantations even though they pierce the mind and the heart and the soul. If one should carry this book their whole life....if one should open it and read more than one opens one's mouth for sustenance....if one memorizes those words and meditates upon them.....then a door is opened beyond which is a celestial city....and a pilgrimage begins that all of the movies over all of the decades that have mesmerized multitudes, crumple and turn to dust blown away as chaff leaving only the grain of the seeds of the gospel of Jesus Christ which no writer and no film director and no special effects director could ever dream of producing in its glorious message that fills the mind with not imaginations but promises and hope and love and joy.
This is no Hollywood movie. One doesn't pay a few dollars, enjoy for three hours and return to reality. There are depressions but those are caused by a real villain. There are insecurities but when that book is opened they fly away. Every year someone comes up with something....a film....a scheme....a vision.....which they are often paid handsomely for by the way.....and every year we partake and are ultimately disappointed and trudge along until the new dream arrives.
Most reading these posts know of what I'm writing about. They've been given that book also, but many do not. To those readers outside of America who may have to look around and search to find this book.....it is literally everywhere here! Even young professing atheists have one somewhere, given to them by someone...sometime in their youth as a gift or a keepsake. Just about all bookstores have them in different sizes and colors and translations. Therein is a movie script in itself.....a land where villains roam free and the people have been subjugated but the power of the creator of every atom in this universe is always at least within one's grasp. There is an ending to the story in this book. A battle rages on a wide plain very near where Jesus Christ once walked and talked. Read of this friends. The light will come on only it won't be a theater light as a movie ends.
