Last night I watched Deep Impact with Brent and Karla. I hadn’t heard of this movie since I was only 11 years old when it came out in theaters (1998). If you’ve never seen it, it’s about a huge comet that is on a course to destroy earth. In the movie they are able to project when it will hit and basically tell everyone they are going to die in 4 weeks. We started joking about what we would do if we were in that situation (eat tubs of ice cream, run with scissors, pee in the shower, etc.) but I started thinking, I don’t know if I would want to learn the date of my death. I mean, it’s just plain creepy.

If you could learn of your exact date of death and how it would happen, would you want to find out? Why or why not?

Stephen

So I just saw Prince Caspian and thought I would throw in my two cents.

First of all, it’s a pretty good movie. You should go see it.

Second, the reason I love the Narnia movies is because of the spiritual parallels. There are a lot of them and maybe some are obvious but they still inspire me. One of my favorites is when Aslan asks Lucy why she didn’t follow him when the others didn’t believe her because they didn’t see. She apologizes and then asks why he didn’t reveal himself and come roaring in to save them like last time. He replies that he often doesn’t do the same thing twice.

How many times do we have an awesome experience with God and then expect Him to do the exact same thing the next time? And when He doesn’t show up, we begin to doubt ourselves and wonder if He’s even still there. 

I want to follow Him in the amazingly awesome times and when it seems like He’s hiding himself. Sometimes we just need to pursue Him a little harder. We need to run after Him when no one else is.

Let the chase begin.

Stephen