i have just finished watching Simon Birch for the 3rd time in my life and it still makes me bawl. it's been 6 years since i've last watched it, but the message it gets across still hits me as hard as it did back then:
that God has a plan for EVERYONE, and that EVERYTHING happens for a reason.
it's a movie of immense faith, courage and the best bond of friendship one can ever hope to have. of learning to accept life as it comes, no matter how unfair it seems. it's about not knowing why, but knowing who is in control. and it's about living out your faith, and not being ashamed of being different.
"I have faith. I just need proof to back it up. "
we've all been through that road. of WANTING to know what's going on. of HAVING to know what to do. of NEEDING to know what's going to happen next. but after a while, (it may be a long while too, i might add, what with the inevitable struggle within ourselves and the there-is-no-way-we-can-win-this wrestling with God), in retrospect, we realize that everything just..fits. where it belongs, where it should be, and how it should be.
a few days ago i was thinking about the Reason for Existence (haha, i decided to include the capitals, looks cooler that way. xD). well, mine, in particular. and yeeeaah okay, there is this 'general' but important, nonetheless, purpose for all of us in the Bible which is to 'Go out and make disciples of all nations baptizing them...' (in Matthew 28:20 - it's funny how i'll remember this for life now, because of Andrew :P)
but you know how we're always being told, 'You have a reason for being here. God has a plan for you.' ? is there something more..specific? like, a subset of the Great Commission perhaps? or something totally different? are we meant to go out and discover what it is or..will it just come to us? i mean, there's probably more to it than just becoming a podiatrist right?
i'm not trying to get ahead of myself here, lol. it's just..i have all these questions, and they're not exactly answerable. they just pop up, and i can't exactly ignore them either, even if i do they'll just pop up again another day. this is not to say it's making me doubt my faith as well. a lot of things don't make sense to me, but no matter. i think they will, one day. one fine day. :)
right now, all i know is He's got something in store for me (and everyone else too). i just hope i know when it comes. whatever it is.
haha. i imagine God with this super huuuuuuuge piece of paper (or i guess he could use the sky, somehow) to draw up his Master Plan, in which everyone in the world is a part of. and i think it's only cause we're so uberly tiny (some, more than others) in this great, big, gargantuan world that we can't see how everything fits into The Grand Scheme of Things.
:)
well, i did say i was just imagining.
anyway, back to where we started, it is a great movie to watch. i love it! ^^
"After a while, crocodile!"
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