LIFE

  After I watched this thought provoking trailer. It made me think about why we reach out  to worlds better than our own? As a child I longed to go to Narnia and my brother wanted to go to Middle Earth. I dreamed that Aslan would come roaring in and change my life forever.
Why do we do this? If we are just highly evolved apes, as everyone tells us then why do we long for more? Sure, animals want to run from pain to somewhere safer. And people do similar things when they are in agony. But I'm talking about the moments when you are not in pain or agony when you have this strange ache to be free.

  In another film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) we are faced with the question of life. What is it to actually live and not just breathe? We long to go out and change the world, fight the villains, fall in love, and be the hero. Yet we don't know how.
  We're told to go out and live. But how?
  Which way do to we go?
  What is truth?
  What is true life?
  Even in The Bible the question is asked, like in John 14:5. "Thomas said to Him, "Lord we don't to know where You are going, and how can we know the way?""

  The questions echo through this world like a distant scream.
Yet no normal man can answer it. Why do we want more than this world can offer? Why can't we seem to live the way we're meant to?

But there is a whisper. A soft voice that murmurs through these stories like Tomorrowland and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

The Whisper says, "Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."" John 14:6.

So remember, when you watch a movie, or read a book, or hear a song that awakens a longing that seems far away and too beautiful to describe. Know that there is a answer to that call.

And although this is not a Christ centered quote, it has a point. (LIFE Magazine motto in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty). "To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life."

And guess what? In Philippians 1:21 it says, "For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

Christ is life. He is the one we should serve.

We're to see the world He's made, to fight the danger to come, to see His truth that has been hidden behind walls of evil, to draw closer to Him and each other, and to feel Him. To Glorify Him. That is the purpose of life.

And remember that longing for someplace better? Well . . . "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I got to prepare a place for you." John 14:2

Realize where these great stories are pointing. Him

So go out and live.