A Curious thought...

This post all started while i was getting ready to take a shower. I approached Kevin Hsiao, one of my roommates at my Riverside apartment. I peeked over his shoulders to take a look on what he was doing while David Borg and Kevin Hu were watching Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade with surround sound. I try to start some small talk with Kevin, lil kevin as we call him. Suddenly, i noticed his glasses. He had bifocals! I was shocked. "How can you have those glasses?" lil kevin chuckled, "Yeah, I'm growing old fast." We both laughed, "The Curious case of Benjamin Button" i said under my breath.

I stepped into my shower and i started to think about the movie. There was a scene when Benjamin was old and his mother took him to one of those healing crusades in the olden days. They wheeled his old fragile body in front of the preacher. The black preacher had his squad of gospel singers behind him and started as the stereotypical preachy-gospel Christian televangelists. The audience of the movie theater started to laugh. In my mind, i reasoned that the audience's laughter is motivated by their experience with charismatic churches like Todd Bentley and the Florida Revival. As the scene continued, the preacher told Benjamin to stand up! and walk! So he did, and he fell, and everyone gasped. The preacher commanded, "Rise up! Rise up Lazarus! and Walk!" Benjamin did, and he began to walk. Everyone in the revival tent witnessed a miracle and praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

Everyone in the movie theater laughed. Why did they laugh? I thought, as i was washing my hair. They laughed because the quote-unquote miracle was not a miracle at all. Why? Because Benjamin Button was growing younger and so in that time at the tent could be the time where his bones and tendons has strengthened to enable him to walk. So it wasn't a "miracle" at all, it was purely by Benjamin's strength and determination.

But how comical it is! The very reason to dismiss a "miracle" was based upon a fictional story of a man that aged backwards. They reasoned from the very foundation of fantasy and lack of reality to dismiss something that the deemed "miracle" is also, in their knowledge, in fact fictional and fantasy-like as well. The very reason to dismiss God's work is to dismiss the very foundation you will stand upon.

O man, use all your might and all your reason to dismiss God. While the whole time you are fighting Him, He is the one who gave you the talent and tools to fight in the first place.


Or maybe i was just thinking too much :)
God bless