It was 1999 and a girl and I were going to see a suspenseful
movie.
It was a shocking movie with a surprise at the end nobody
saw coming.
Guess what movie it was?
Wrong, it was Titanic.
Just kidding.
We saw the Sixth
Sense, a very good movie and if you went to the movie without ever hearing
about it, you would have a shock at the end of the movie.
It was
a good movie.
There
was something that ruined the shock value for me, I already found out about the
ending.
So my
girlfriend and I at the time just ended up making fun of Bruce Willis’s career.
“I used
to star in action movies like Die Hard and spend the movie fight people after
stepping on broken glass, I was beast, now I’m a psychologist,
what happened?”
We were
joking and almost in tears laughing.
It
changed to atmosphere of the movie when we knew it was going to happen.
Sometimes
you have to see it to believe it.
Is that
always the case?
How do
I know someone wasn’t tell me a lie?
My
status on Facebook today is the supposed ending to the Twilight Series, or is
it?
Can you
trust what I wrote down as being the actual ending or not?
Sometimes
we can trust what other people say and other times we do not.
Do you
trust me when I tell you every year Michigan State, The Lions, Tigers and Red
Wings will win the championship?
What
can you trust and what can you not trust?
Jesus
appeared to his disciples except Thomas.
In
simple words the other disciples told him, “Dude, we saw Jesus.”
He
didn’t believe them and said this in John 20:25…
“Unless
I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and
put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.”
Certain
Circles started using the saying doubting Thomas.
It was
a week later when Thomas did actually see Jesus and Thomas was in shock.
Jesus
told him this in verse 29…
“Because
you have seen me, you have believed’ blessed are those who have not seen and
yet have believed.”
I used
to be hard headed with faith.
“I am
not going to believe until I see Jesus or witness a miracle that only he could
perform.”
I was
thickheaded.
If you
wait to see an amazing miracle to believe in Jesus you could be waiting a
while.
Faith
takes trust.
You
trust in what you don’t always see.
It took
time but I believe in Jesus because of what I have learned about him.
I was
taught that people gave up their lives for what they witnessed with Jesus.
They
could have lied and lived, but they suffered painful deaths because they couldn’t
lie.
With
movies, we could be told the ending and might believe or not.
The
decision is ours.
Just
like with faith.
We can
believe in Jesus without seeing him.
If you
can believe the ending of a movie because a friend told what
happened, could you do the same with faith and Jesus?
Have a
great day.
