Seekers of Truth

You may be able to name the movies just as I can.  Paranormal, The Cell, Sixth Sense, Tron...the list is long.  Religiously themed movies are even longer.  Poets, painters, musicians...many have written and given the spirit world great place in culture & society.  Science and math even attempt to solve problems in this world for both regard to and against the possibility of religion.  Worlds have risen and fallen around piety, superiority of faiths, mis-truths and truths.

Psalms 84:2 - "My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord, my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God;"

Is it not interesting that ages ago, David wrote these words through inspiration of the Holy Spirit and penned for all time the eternal truth that our very hearts, our soul, our eternal spirit seeks the connection and relationship of Truth. The very breath of God in us giving us life. It is a truth of scripture that is stated contextually many times, by various writers, in different lands.

God put into our beings the very desire to know Him.  Adam and Eve knew God, walked with Him, ate with Hm.  They were instructed to abstain from one thing and they failed. Sin and death entered the world - neither existed prior to their choice. But the desire to know and be with their creator never ceased.  Man often failed, to the point that God flooded the earth.  Because of the choice to follow or not follow the desire of God in their hearts, God started over with Noah and his family.  Man soon walked from God again, and began to seek the power of their own hands, created the Tower of Babel and God destroyed it and mixed up language. These are not stories. The time of kings, prophets and judges proclaimed the coming Messiah, the One foreshadowed in the sacrifice of the lamb to cover Adam and Eve's nakedness.  Prophecy after prophecy fulfilled in the coming of the Messiah.  Jesus, the Messiah, walked the earth, lived as one of us, was sinless, loved, healed.  He sacrificed Himself to cover the sins of the world. 

If Truth is not to be known, why do we show evidence of seeking truth in so much of our lives.  What about popularity, drugs, family, friendship, religion, occupation, sex, alcohol, superiority...  These are false truths.  These are paths to us becoming god's ourselves.  We seek these, often achieve them and evidence ourselves as gods.  Pushing the True God further away. 

Recently, our family watched The Last Airbender.  My son had heard it was a flop movie.  Maybe so, some of the acting was poor.  But there are so many correlations to the spirit world of many religions.  In this world, specifically, the mystic religions.  Tangently, environmentalist and new agers.

I thought the theme of "responsibility" through the last Water Bender and her brother was powerful.  This was a lesson they passed on to Um (spelling).   The fire nation was obviously exemplified as the person that has decided there is no need for God, that they are now god themselves.  The fire nation commander kills the Moon Spirit (god) and says "we are now gods".  This is what Adam and Eve did.  They had the choice to kill the" fish."

The Water Princess...incredulously...says "There is no Love without Sacrifice."  (I placed the capitals - as I believe they are necessary for emphasis on more than "I love pizza!")  She even goes so far to say "Is is my choice to lay down my life (paraphrase)?"    That is powerful stuff.  She sacrificed for the many - another corrolation.

While The Last Airbender is not biblically based by any means, it has the truth of spirituality that is a part of every human regardless of their technical, physical, intellectual, industrial, political or otherwise - prowess.

Jesus said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that one lay down his life for his friend."  After a night of intense wrestling Jesus "took of the cup" presented Him by His Father.  He then eventually, laid down his life for you and for me.  It is not Chi, not Benders, Buddha, Muhammad, John Smith.  Not of yin, or yang.  Not about Karma or reincarnation.  No...it is simply this: 

That void in your heart that you are filling with everything under the sun...Jesus Christ is all that will fill it.  The way you understand this is that you are finite and sinful, even in your goodness.  You need the covering of Jesus' Sacrificial gift of Life for you.  You accept gifts, recognize the Truth of God in Jesus and allow him to live through you.

In Him There Is No Darkness!

As we are moving into spring and closer to summer, here’s an interesting fact that you may not know. The days are longer in summer and shorter in winter the further you move from the equator. It's generally dark on a summer night in Florida by 8:30 p.m., but in Vermont, there will still be some light at 10:00 p.m. The situation is reversed in the winter, where the sun will go down in Vermont by 3:45 p.m. while it remains light in Florida until 5:15 p.m.. Northern Alaska is called the "Land of the Midnight Sun" because it never gets dark during the summer months. That part of the earth is facing the sun all day and all night.

We tend to enjoy the light more than we do darkness because if nothing else it allows us to get more accomplished. Darkness brings a sense of uncertainty and doubt. However, in the light all things are visible where nothing is hidden. John the Apostle uses a light and darkness to illustrate our relationship to Jesus.

1 John 1

⁵This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. ⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

From the very beginning God has always been associated with light. The Holiness of God is described as burning (bright) or radiant. There is nothing corrupt or wrong about God. That’s why He’s described with the word, “light.” If we desire to truly take on the image of God as Christians then we must the walk in God’s light. That means there should be nothing corrupt or wrong found in us either.

Where are you walking now, in darkness or in the light? Perhaps its time we start evaluating how we live by finding the habits, speech patterns, relationships, actions and thoughts that cast a dark shadow over us spiritually and move away from them into God’s light.