Rejoicing in the Light

I often check the upcoming movie listings online to see if there is anything suitable for family viewing coming to our local theater.

While I am not too interested in a great deal of what is being offered simply because it doesn't interest me, I am concerned about an alarming trend of movies that are created for the sole purpose of removing the light from our lives.

Celebrations of evil fill movie houses to the rapacious appetite of audiences which care nothing for goodness, but rather spend money to be shocked, horrified and offered a full plate of garbage from which they feast as if the offering were worthy.

Satan walks the earth arm in arm with the Holly-weird crowd and helps them along the pathway to destruction most willingly.

That they and others sell themselves so cheaply is so sad.

That they believe the pernicious lies that are presented as 'truth from a certain point of view' is nothing short of pitiful.

I don't want to take my family to see filth.

If we wanted to view garbage, all we need do is bring our chairs out and sit by the large rolling trash bin which is emptied by an automated lift each Wednesday morning.

It too is filled with sickening things, but I can guarantee that as unpleasant the aroma and as unpalatable the contents, the household garbage is better fare than what lights the marquees at many a theater in our communities.

While we can wash off the accidental filth of handling household waste, our minds are not so easily cleansed from disturbing and evil imagery sent out to titillate, entice and influence.

That is why advertising is SO effective.

The whole point is to sell something to a consumer.

Movies have become, not entertainment and diversion, but long play advertisements for the dirt, the smut and the filth that we would not have considered handling just a few short years ago.

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. (Old Testament Proverbs 29:18)

What kind of vision is being offered to us? Is it something that will help us keep the law, or does it discourage our view from anything that is good?

Society isn't so sick that it can't be healed, but too many feel there isn't any need to cure the disease that runs rampant.

The Great Healer must indeed be weeping. He holds the cure for the ills of the world, but His children run from it seeking only to do their own will and not that of the Father.

Happiness is not a subject for debate, yet the media has attached that name to things that defile, degrade and destroy. There isn't even a long span of temporary happiness in doing wicked.

Satan knows this, but it isn't in his nature to tell the truth or he would let us see him for who and what he REALLY is.

The funny thing about the irony of circumstance is that Jesus Christ and God the Father have never hidden who they are and what their mission is all about. They want to be there for us, with us and help us come home - if only WE be willing.

Satan wants to drive us like cattle, herd us like dumb animals and compel us to eat from the trough he wishes to feed us from and all the while, he knows - HE KNOWS - that what he offers is poison.

It isn't accidental.

The family is the biggest target simply because the loss of the family is the loss of everything.

When filth can be peddled to the family, they become people who just live together instead of people who love each other and do for one another in a selfless and open manner.

Satan wants us to believe that the Light is out of our reach.

Christ has a different message:

28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
(New Testament Matthew 11:28 - 30)

Jesus Christ invites ALL to come to Him. He didn't say that only a select few could come, but all.

I believe Him when he says I can bring my burdens to Him. I have done so on many ocassions. I will do so on many more.

The Light that fills me with understanding a love removes the darkness that Satan would have me believe is 'reality'.

The Light of Christ helps me see the other people in the world around me and understand that their needs are as important as mine and in some cases, should come first - even ahead of my own agenda.

What a blessing to have that Light and love!

When I look at the movie listings now, I am looking for movies that are about love the way Father in Heaven shows it. Love the way that Jesus Christ shows it. Love of family as ordained by God.

Without those elements, no amount of pre-release hype can make the movie worth any price.

I don't want my soul to bear a "For Sale sign". And certainly not for so cheap a price.