Tim
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
A Story Of Redemption
So tonight I was watching a movie and while I was watching it, something struck me. 90% of the movies made not labeled action movies have a very common theme. Part way through the movie the main character loses his way, something goes wrong and his life seems to fall apart, he feels lost. But the movies always end the same way, redemption. He(or she) earns back the trust of those they have wronged, and are redeemed, people love them again and everything ends well. This shows me how much of the world longs for redemption. We all feel lost at times, we all need to be redeemed. That is why you see this plot over and over again. It is something built inside of us as humans, we all feel the need to be redeemed and sometimes we see these needs through unusual mediums(such as film). The truth is, we all need to be redeemed, thats why we feel those needs, thats why we connect with movies in that way. But unlike those films, the real story of redemption is much sweeter, we don't have to earn the redemption because we can't earn it. It is a gift freely offered to us. The real story of redemption comes with real happiness, nothing fake or temporary. So maybe tomorrow night, instead of watching a movie or a tv show that might give you a fake story of redemption, try picking up the book about the one, true and lasting story of redemption that we all need.
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Something exciting I learned tonight about the plan of redemption. You know the bible says that the stars and the bodies In the sky are a finger work of God, but in Isaiah it says that when God created the plan of redemption he rolled up the sleeve on his holy right arm. Creating the stars took far less work and was much less important that the work of salvation that was created in eternity past.
Think about that next time you feel like God isn't listening
Man, it's a good thing my redemption doesn't depend on me! I find Jeremiah 17:9 (The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?) is absolutely true about me. Thankfully I can trust in God to keep leading me back to his path every time I start to wander!
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