she looked at me funny, with compassion in her eyes...
This is probably going to sound ridiculous, but I just watched the end of Titanic (I started it last night) and for the first time I really understand what that movie is actually about. The varying levels of selfishness and Godlessness in people's hearts is just... so sad! I couldn't even like Rose in the beginning anymore because she's so focused on herself that she is so ready to jump ship and abandon the potential in her life to stand up for what is right. I'll give the character props for at least having the maturity to recognize that something was wrong in her lifestyle and being open enough to listen to Jack and learn from him, but it saddens me that we live in a society that breeds so much injustice and is blind to it. I think much of our society has a mindset like that of Cal, totally bent on self-gratification and convinced that that is how it should be.
Is it stupid that I am thinking this much about the movie Titanic?? Probably, but here's another thought: the moment when Rose looks across the dining room and sees the young girl folding her napkin over her lap in "high society style" and realizes she has to make a choice against her upbringing... I wish we could all have that realization moment and take a giant step toward the heart of God. I find myself resonating with the character of Rose in this moment because I have sort of lived inside my Ashley bubble for so long, but the past couple of years God has been revealing to me His heart of compassion for all people -- His heart for justice -- and I have slowly had this learning process where I've realized that all these things I found appalling in those around me were still a part of my own upbringing. I have to make a choice to step out of that, and no one else can make that choice for me.
That's the clincher -- that no one can make that choice for anyone else. So how do we let His truth be known in a way that will touch people with that "dining room" moment, so to speak? How do we reveal God in a way that the lost will realize, first, that they are lost, and second, that only God can save them?
I don't know.
...can I follow you?
she looked at me funny
with compassion in her eyes
she said casually
"I've seen you crying
I've seen you on your knees
the wise Man died so you can
store up treasures in heaven
store up treasures in heaven
store up treasures in heaven
don't you wait for
the rain to come falling down"...
Is it stupid that I am thinking this much about the movie Titanic?? Probably, but here's another thought: the moment when Rose looks across the dining room and sees the young girl folding her napkin over her lap in "high society style" and realizes she has to make a choice against her upbringing... I wish we could all have that realization moment and take a giant step toward the heart of God. I find myself resonating with the character of Rose in this moment because I have sort of lived inside my Ashley bubble for so long, but the past couple of years God has been revealing to me His heart of compassion for all people -- His heart for justice -- and I have slowly had this learning process where I've realized that all these things I found appalling in those around me were still a part of my own upbringing. I have to make a choice to step out of that, and no one else can make that choice for me.
That's the clincher -- that no one can make that choice for anyone else. So how do we let His truth be known in a way that will touch people with that "dining room" moment, so to speak? How do we reveal God in a way that the lost will realize, first, that they are lost, and second, that only God can save them?
I don't know.
...can I follow you?
she looked at me funny
with compassion in her eyes
she said casually
"I've seen you crying
I've seen you on your knees
the wise Man died so you can
store up treasures in heaven
store up treasures in heaven
store up treasures in heaven
don't you wait for
the rain to come falling down"...