Lessons in everything

Well, it's been a while since my last post, and while I was in church tonight I got an idea for a post, so I decided to be productive and write it out. :P

Anyway, while I was standing in church during worship I had a random thought. There are lessons in everything we do, and everything we see. If you look at it the right way, so many 'worldly' things can have a Godly message. Take 'The Matrix' for example- (Warning: Will contain spoilers.)

In The Matrix, the very first movie, an ordinary guy learns who he really is, and through that, becomes extremely powerful. Now isn't this true for all of us? We're all just 'ordinary' people, and at the same time, there isn't anything ordinary about us. We have purposes, we have power. God has given each and every one of us incredible gifts. And when we learn who we are, through Him, then we become powerful people. The closer we get to God, the more powerful we become. I'm not saying this like we're all super heroes or something. Though in some ways, that's true. People have done things that are completely impossible. Things have happened that are impossible just from people being around. It's incredible what God can do through us, and yet so many people take that for granted, don't believe it even when it's right in their face, or just don't think it can happen to them...

On to the second movie. In the second movie, Neo does few things. Using his new found power, he battles the evil that dwells in the Matrix. Now, shouldn't that be what all of us are doing? Fighting against the evil and the sin in the world around us? Showing God's love and light to every person we pass on the street. Just being able to go places and walk through crowds and change the atmosphere of a place just by being there. We can make a huge difference. Just us. One person. And to the second part in this movie, Neo restarts Trinity's heart. She was dead, and he brought her back. Through God, we have the power to do things like that as well. And it happens a lot more often than people think. Someone in my youth group went on a missions trip and prayed for someone with a glass eye to have their sight restored. Well, that glass eye turned into a real, normal, working eye. Pretty crazy, right? Almost doesn't sound real, but it happened. Thousands of miracles happen all the time, and very few people it seems take much notice. It's almost sad, really.

Aaand on to the third movie. This one is pretty cool.. In the end of the movie, Neo goes into the heart of the darkness. Right smack into the middle of the robot city. From there he goes into the matrix and fights agent Smith. At the end, Smith turns Neo into a copy of himself. But just after that happens, a bright light begins to shine from his eyes. It goes through all the other Smith's as well, and destroys them all, freeing all the people under his hold. Isn't this kind of like what Jesus did for us? He died and went into the darkest place, took on all the worlds sin for us. Sacrificed himself to free its hold on us. Sacrificed himself so that we could be free of it. He took it into himself and became just like everyone else, then died and took the sin with him.

Isn't it interesting how you can get so much out of a movie that wasn't even made to show that? I think it's really cool, actually. Just goes to show that there are lessons everywhere.

Well, that's all I've got for now. Hopefully I'll have some new stuff to post soon. :P Seeya all later!