Painting a Picture


It's interesting how movies and stories provoke thoughts that you wouldn't come up with on your own. Everything around us has the possibility to effect us for good or bad. I beleive God speaks to through all kinds of stuff. He'll use anything to tap us on the shoulder and snap us out of our wanderings. Our hearts are prone to wander but thank God that God is good and he continues to draw us deeper and closer to Him.

It's fascinating how addicted we can get to a movie or TV show that constantly keeps us in suspense and fascinated, intreguing... The thoughts that develop out of our desire "to know".

I finally watched the third matrix film Matrix Revolutions. Took me a while to get around to it because I spent a good 5 years avoiding movies, TV and video games. So I've been checking out what I've been missing.

There are certain movies and TV shows out there that capture the attention of the public. The Matrix did it by drawing people in by the "mystery" of the matrix. J.J. Abrams did it with Lost, by only giving the people enough to stick around for the next episode, but using the mystery to continue to draw the people in, week after week. "Lost" people are crazy about the show, they're a different breed. A new series out there "The Fringe" is filled with the unexplained. I have a few friends that host a weekly video podcast report on the show, discussing what the heck is going on and what the heck "could" be going on. One of the reasons why I think the last matrix movie bombed so bad was for one, it didn't live up to the suspense of the mystery (I personally enjoyed it though ;D), the other is that the mystery was solved, it was over, it's not what people wanted. But they knew.

The crazy thing about all of this is, the greatest life questions haven't been answered, even if we've come to have faith in what we believe to be true, there's still the vastness of the unexplained, the unveiled knowledge that is there but has been hidden. God is always drawing us into mysteries, drawing us further, by faith the knowledge of God comes. By faith Jesus abides in our hearts (Eph 3:17), and only by the spirit true revelation comes (1st Cor 2:10-16). The difference in seeking by means of the spirit vs seeking by means of our 5 senses is access, the five senses do not have access where the spirit can take us. God is definitely the God of mysteries. The cool thing though, is the vastness of God, to us an unending ocean of knowledge, not a knowledge obtained by the senses... The knowledge of God, by and from the one who sees all and knows all, nothing is out of his knowing. Thank God for the spirit, otherwise we'd be stuck trying to figure it all out by our 5 senses, bleeeeehhh.... ¶ 3:00 AM 0 comments