So I was watching The Book of Eli today (if you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it), when I have one of these "Royal WHA" moments as my Dad and my cousin T would call it. There's this scene where Denzel Washington has just defended himself against what would seem like insurmountable odds and has just left this town. He's on the outskirts when he realizes that Mila Kunis is following him. He tries to get her to leave but she protests. Here's where I got hit. She says to him, "I hate it here!" to which he simply replies in almost a whisper, "So change it." AHHHHHHH!!! I felt like I got hit by a Mack truck. He doesn't say leave, he doesn't say go somewhere else, he says, "change it." Think about that for a second. Maybe you need a bit more of a background to the movie to really get the impact of this statement (click here). How often am I ready to run out of my situation simply because "I hate it", but instead God says to me, "change it". Just some food for thought.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Profound Subtleties
I'm often blown by the littlest things in life. A rain drop, a simple passing comment, a lyric. For some reason it's always those little things that God uses to hit me with something profound; something deep in His heart that if he used the language it deserved my mind would probably melt like the guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
So I was watching The Book of Eli today (if you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it), when I have one of these "Royal WHA" moments as my Dad and my cousin T would call it. There's this scene where Denzel Washington has just defended himself against what would seem like insurmountable odds and has just left this town. He's on the outskirts when he realizes that Mila Kunis is following him. He tries to get her to leave but she protests. Here's where I got hit. She says to him, "I hate it here!" to which he simply replies in almost a whisper, "So change it." AHHHHHHH!!! I felt like I got hit by a Mack truck. He doesn't say leave, he doesn't say go somewhere else, he says, "change it." Think about that for a second. Maybe you need a bit more of a background to the movie to really get the impact of this statement (click here). How often am I ready to run out of my situation simply because "I hate it", but instead God says to me, "change it". Just some food for thought.
So I was watching The Book of Eli today (if you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it), when I have one of these "Royal WHA" moments as my Dad and my cousin T would call it. There's this scene where Denzel Washington has just defended himself against what would seem like insurmountable odds and has just left this town. He's on the outskirts when he realizes that Mila Kunis is following him. He tries to get her to leave but she protests. Here's where I got hit. She says to him, "I hate it here!" to which he simply replies in almost a whisper, "So change it." AHHHHHHH!!! I felt like I got hit by a Mack truck. He doesn't say leave, he doesn't say go somewhere else, he says, "change it." Think about that for a second. Maybe you need a bit more of a background to the movie to really get the impact of this statement (click here). How often am I ready to run out of my situation simply because "I hate it", but instead God says to me, "change it". Just some food for thought.
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