Post by stormyknight on Nov 2, 2018 10:01:12 GMT -6
I was thumbing through the menu on Netflix and came across a film called “The Gospel of Mark”. It said it was filmed word for word from Mark’s Gospel. I was instantly compelled to click on it and begin watching.
This is not the first film like this that I have seen. A long while back, maybe twenty years ago, I had purchased the VHS movie collection, “The Gospel according to Matthew” (1993) and after watching it, purchased the set on Acts by the same director. Both were word for word films and both were riveting to say the least. Back then, I and my wife were still “noob” Christians, only having been baptized in ’91. The movie was like taking a cold shower. Thrilling? Nerve tingling? Eyes wide and at times couldn’t stop grinning or couldn’t stop crying.
A lot has happen in my life since then. I’ve ‘journeyed’ a long way down my ‘path’. And while I’ve learned mountains of knowledge from the Word, I still feel as though I know nothing. I’m still a noob. I’ve always been a dreamer or to put it more technical, it is easy for me to imagine things, to see virtual scenarios in my mind. It can be both a good thing and a bad thing. I used to think everyone did that, but have come to find out that that is not so.
So, as of writing this, I haven’t watched but the first two minutes of “The Gospel of Mark”. By then it has told about John the Baptist and him proclaiming “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” Mark 1:6. At that moment, they show the actor who plays Jesus, walking along the bank of the Jordan River…
It’s here where my mind just…left. Wandered away. Here was a depiction of Jesus, the Man, but, actually the Son of the Creator Himself, walking along a river which He caused to be. Knows exactly how many pebbles are under each sandal on His feet and exactly how and when each pebble was formed. Breathing air that He made. Can you imagine the satisfaction that He might have felt just stopping and looking around and filling His lungs full of air and thinking how good that feels? Perhaps bending down and running His hands through the water of the river, feeling the coolness run over His fingers. The very Creator, here, standing on the Earth, with us, Mankind, whom He made to share His existence with. After pillars of fire and cloud and booming thunder on the mountain, splitting rocks and seas, He now comes down to be with us in the same form that He created us so that, eventually, we could change, willingly I might add, to become like Him.
This is not the first film like this that I have seen. A long while back, maybe twenty years ago, I had purchased the VHS movie collection, “The Gospel according to Matthew” (1993) and after watching it, purchased the set on Acts by the same director. Both were word for word films and both were riveting to say the least. Back then, I and my wife were still “noob” Christians, only having been baptized in ’91. The movie was like taking a cold shower. Thrilling? Nerve tingling? Eyes wide and at times couldn’t stop grinning or couldn’t stop crying.
A lot has happen in my life since then. I’ve ‘journeyed’ a long way down my ‘path’. And while I’ve learned mountains of knowledge from the Word, I still feel as though I know nothing. I’m still a noob. I’ve always been a dreamer or to put it more technical, it is easy for me to imagine things, to see virtual scenarios in my mind. It can be both a good thing and a bad thing. I used to think everyone did that, but have come to find out that that is not so.
So, as of writing this, I haven’t watched but the first two minutes of “The Gospel of Mark”. By then it has told about John the Baptist and him proclaiming “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” Mark 1:6. At that moment, they show the actor who plays Jesus, walking along the bank of the Jordan River…
It’s here where my mind just…left. Wandered away. Here was a depiction of Jesus, the Man, but, actually the Son of the Creator Himself, walking along a river which He caused to be. Knows exactly how many pebbles are under each sandal on His feet and exactly how and when each pebble was formed. Breathing air that He made. Can you imagine the satisfaction that He might have felt just stopping and looking around and filling His lungs full of air and thinking how good that feels? Perhaps bending down and running His hands through the water of the river, feeling the coolness run over His fingers. The very Creator, here, standing on the Earth, with us, Mankind, whom He made to share His existence with. After pillars of fire and cloud and booming thunder on the mountain, splitting rocks and seas, He now comes down to be with us in the same form that He created us so that, eventually, we could change, willingly I might add, to become like Him.
What is it like to be like Him? Love! Love is to be like Him. There is nothing negative or dark or bad about love. Many songs and poems and stories have been written about how love hurts, or love stinks, etc. etc. but they are not true. Not accurate. It is the betrayal of love that hurts or stinks or breaks the heart. It is the betrayal of Love, of Him who created us, that hurts.
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails...And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love." 1 Cor. 13:4-8,13
Love never fails...And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love." 1 Cor. 13:4-8,13
Love IS all we need!
I’m going to go finish watching that movie now…