dude, I gotta stop doing this... staying up this late I mean.
Ok, so, the other night I went to see this movie at the theater in Ppl's Plza... and I went by myself at 10pm. Yeah. That was fun. And there were like, 4 other people in the cinema. All kids my age or a little younger. (Couldn't have been too young--it was a rated R movie). Anywayzzz....
The movie I went to see was called Blindness, and I went mostly to 'see' (haha...ok moron, get on with it) what the movie had to offer from a medical perspective. Besides some nudity (which I've seen before), and a couple somewhat explicit sex scenes (which I haven't), there wasn't much that the movie had to offer in the medical genre.
But the spiritual impact the movie had on me was astounding.
Yeah, I'm super weird, but pleez...lemme explain myself...if I may.
The movie poses the hypothetical senerio of what if the everyone in the world went blind? Well, we would be desperate, to say the least. We would be trying to depend on:
1.) ourselves, dispite the fact that we are newly blinded, and have no training or guidance of any kind, and
2.) other people who are in the exact same position as us.
What I'm trying to say is, our world is exactly like this hypothetical world in the movie.
Check out Revelation 3:17 about the church of Laodicea: "You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked."
I would use these terms to describe the people I saw in the movie Blindness. They were poor. They had no food. Actually, they were so desperate that they would exchange sex for food. They were wretched, pitiful, and some of them were quite literally naked. All this was caused by the fact that they went blind.
Whoa! How true is it in this world!!??
The church of Laodicea was an actual church, but this particular church also symbolized the unsaved church. They were lukewarm. Neither hot nor cold. And Christ was so fed up with them that He was about to just spit them out (verse 15-16). But even though they were disgraceful in every way, Jesus still loved them. In verse 20, He pleaded with them to open the door of their hearts and let Him in.
Before we are saved, before we come to know Christ in a personal way, we are exactly like the people in this movie. We think we can see, but we actually are blind to the truth. We are poor, although we think we are rich. We are wretched and pitiful. We are naked. We try to lead each other around, but we get nowhere fast. We are confined to this world. There is no escape. We are desperate, wreched, lonely, damned individuals. There is no hope.
We are totally dependent on the one person who can save us from our desperate situation. That person is Jesus Christ.
Yes, yes, I got all this from a movie. Would I recommend the movie? Um... maybe. But you can reap just as much insight, if not a whole heck of a lot more by reading the Bible ;)
yay Jesus!
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