Last night I went to Redbox to rent a movie for my husband and I and as normal I always pick the worst movies ever. Literally, I could probably count on one hand the amount of times I have choose a good movie worth watching. Normally they are so bad we shut the movie off before the first 15 minutes hit. Tonight, was a very interesting night. We had a long day painting Coopers room as it was the last room in the house to get finished; “save the best for last.” Anyway, my husband and I got a deck of cards tonight at the store in hopes to play some fun games this evening. We started off the movie with tea and Poker; I don’t do well playing games and watching movies at the same time. In between hands, I would watch for a couple minutes and realized the movie I had picked was terrible.We played for quite awhile and it was a fun thing to do together while watching a movie. We enjoy games but don’t play them very often.

I am pretty embarrassed to list the name of the movie that I rented as I was completely oblivious to what I had done. For the sake of the story, I will refrain from mentioning the name as well as for the sake of my integrity. :) Anyway, the premise of the movie was a catastrophic event in the world that takes surviving friends into a house to fend for themselves. They develop extreme cabin fever and do drugs to survive the day. They end up encountering a “creature” in the middle of the night that attacks one of the guys. Long story short they find that he is demon possessed and tries to kill off the remaining friends. (I’m sure you are asking yourself at this point why I never turned the movie off…) The movie basically ended with them reading the book of Revelations and realizing that they were in the tribulation and this “creature” was a demon trying to kill off any survivors. As each friend “sacrificed” their life for the other friends, they actually were labeled “good” people and went to heaven. (Again, you may be asking why we kept watching…I’ll get there in a second) The last two friends remaining ended up having to choose “good” works in order to make it to heaven before the “creature” killed them off. I’m sure you can guess that in the sheer panic of this “creature” they choose good over evil. They all met again in Heaven and received anything they wanted; cigarettes, women, profanities, and much more, life was the same as on earth they just received more “things.” “The End”

Yes that is how the movie ended, they all did good works and were good people and anything they asked for in heaven they would receive. Their perspective remained very worldly in the place called “heaven.” I found this to be a completely fascinating movie in the sense that this is what the world makes of Christ and the end times. Fascinating that as much as people fight to remove God from the pledge of allegiance and praying in public before a meal, they still have enough conviction to make a movie about the possible tribulation. The fear that plagues Hollywood, develops movies to make sense of their lack of commitment to Christ, but clear indication that they hope to end up in heaven if there is a heaven. People get to the end of their life and ask themselves what’s to come after they die. Will there be an after life? They ask enough questions to make sense of their actions and lack of commitment to anything other than themselves, but believing if something happens, they were “good” enough to proceed into heaven without having to believe in God.

It makes me really sad and really angry all at the same time. People are choosing to remain blind and continue in their worldly patterns of drugs, sex, and debauchery because it benefits them and makes them feel good for the time being, but if there happened to be an after life than their hopes of having a second chance is what they cling to. This movie depicted a great perspective of how the world will blatantly choose themselves and deny God, unless they are faced with turmoil when an “evil” presence tries to kill the world off. On a daily basis people will surrender their lives to prove their isn’t a God, but they don’t realize they are trying so hard to pursue against the obvious. If it wasn’t obvious, “God” wouldn’t be such a taboo word, and a priority to conquer against the actual truth. People wouldn’t feel the need to disprove God.

God is everywhere and that is so evident with our society. We have many religions, people proclaiming the truth about Christ or trying to disprove Christ, different seminars for every faith/religion or atheist, Holidays that become about presents and money rather than the truth, and so on and so on. We also have so much evil: shootings, suicide, wealth and materialism just to name a few, and all of these things are simple distractions that end up consuming lives that end in death and unhappiness. They fight against the obvious. God has made it clear that he is Lord of all the earth and made every single one of us, yet we can’t show an ounce of gratification.

What have you conquered in your life? If you died today would you feel as though you lived your life to the fullest knowing your material possessions will not travel with you to the after life? What are you clinging to? Wealth, possessions, job, family, friends, clothing, and food. Or are you clinging to the truth of who God created you to be and using your talents to grow your relationship with God, yourself, family, friends, acquaintances, coworkers, and society. When you lay your head down at night, do you feel satisfied if you died in your sleep that you would know where you were going and that what you accomplished was worth something? Ultimately this is all the matters, simple and true. Nothing else matters. We think we have our whole lives to live, yet in a blink of an eye it’s gone. Take responsibility for this one life we have, and live it to the fullest.

Moment of truth: The world sees heaven as a happy place for anyone whose “good.” Go and share with these people what Christ did for their “good” works and how Judas and Peter both denied Christ, but Peters repentant heart is what got him to heaven. Judas’ prideful heart lead him to death and hell. Think about it….