One of my favorite movie moments from The Matrix;
MORPHEUS: The Matrix is everywhere, it's all around us, here even in this room. You can see it out your window or on your television. You feel it when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
NEO: What truth?
MORPHEUS: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind.
The leather creaks as he leans back.
MORPHEUS: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Morpheus opens his hands. In the right is a red pill. In the left, a blue pill.
MORPHEUS: This is your last chance. After this, there is no going back. You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe.
The pills in his open hands are reflected in the glasses.
MORPHEUS: You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Neo feels the smooth skin of the capsules, the moisture growing in his palms.
MORPHEUS: Remember that all I am offering is the truth. Nothing more.
Neo opens his mouth and swallows the red pill. Morpheus smiles.
MORPHEUS: Follow me.
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There's so many things in this movie that I love.
In this part of the movie you could interpret so many things, one spin is that it's about faith. When Jesus healed, he almost always seemed to require or respond to some act of stepping out, like asking someone to put out their hand, or asking them "what do you want". Other times he would be responding to an action; like responding to the guys lowering their friend on a mat through a roof, or to the lady reaching out to touch his cloak in the midst of a crowd.
It's not just enough to believe ... you've got to step out and trust. You can't see until you choose.
Friday, September 7, 2007
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"... you've got to step out and trust. You can't see until you choose."
That's so true. You can't see until you choose, and choose we must. Whether we realize it or not, we're choosing. Morpheus gave Neo a wakeup call, and brought the choice front and center. I feel for the rest of the poor saps in the Matrix who didn't seem to get that same choice. Then again, that became Neo's calling... to help others see that there's a choice to be made.
The film The Matrix is so thick with spiritual imagery, it's almost become cliché for many in the church realm, used over and over in sermon illustrations and video clips. I still feel though that the imagery is powerful and real, and extremely relevant to our world, especially here in Southern California Wonderland.
I feel that today, right here and now we are in a Matrix of our own making. The scary thing is, most of us don't realize it. Whether we realize it or not though, there is a choice to be made. And choose, we must.
Love the Etsy additions!
AMEN. (I wish I could chose a font size so that AMEN would be huge.)
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