Well, there went 2 hours of my life...

First, let me start off this blog entry with the following:  SPOILER ALERT!!! I will try not to give away too much of the movie I'm talking about, but no promises.  (The movie is Knowing.)

So, today while I was folding the laundry I decided to watch Knowing on my DVR.  (I just want to take a moment to say I love free preview weekends of movie channels.  That's how I get all of the movies I want to see without having to pay for them.)  I absolutely love those end of the world disaster type movies.  (And those ones of people trying to figure out how to save mankind from random things.)  2012...bring it on, I Am Legend...woohoo!  Anyway, I digress...so I watched it, and talk about a waste of two hours of my life!

I need to start with the premise of it.  So the movie is about this professor (played by Nicolas Cage) whose son gets a weird note in a time capsule that has nothing but random numbers on it.  Throughout the movie Nicolas Cage figures out that all of the numbers are dates of major cataclysmic events that have happened over the last 50 years. Throughout the movie they keep talking about how he doesn't believe in predestination but that things just happen randomly.  (Which as the movie progresses, we learn that there are no "cosmic accidents".)  So, through this I'm thinking "sweet!  Maybe we can actually touch on the subject of God and divine intervention/control"...yeah right!  (Here's the spoiler...) How about more the subject of aliens in control of it all.  ALIENS!  Really?!?  I mean, really?!?

Why is it that people (generally speaking) can accept the theory of evolution as fact or that we might not be alone in the universe but they can't acknowledge that there might possibly be a higher power in the universe that controls everything?  Let's think about this logically.  The human eye is so advanced that scientists have acknowledged that there is no explanation for how it could possibly evolve.  I mean come on!  Even Darwin didn't believe in his own theory.  AND honestly...aliens!  People are willing to believe and even write about how everything happens for a reason and how it might not be a cosmic accident but instead of saying that there could be something bigger than them, they would rather make it about aliens (that coincidentally looked kinda like weird angels in space ships in the movie) who know all about the earth being destroyed by a  massive solar flare and aliens rescue certain kids to start everything all over again.

Yeah, so let me just say, there are two hours of my life I will never get back.  I don't know if I'm more frustrated at the fact that I continue to get suckered into watching these things (more for the laugh because I know that God is in control and He's the one who know when the world is going to end...silly Mayans) or for the fact that once again Hollywood has proven how sad and secular it has become.

Well, that's pretty much all of my rant, and I really don't know where I'm headed with it, but I do know that no matter what kinds of things people continue to make up that God is in control of it all and I don't have to have any worries or look for conspiracies or answers in numbers because I have hope!  And, I should be spreading that to those that don't have the hope and joy in Christ that we have.  As Darrin Ratcliff has been telling us since December "Where He is, hope happens!"  The hope of Christ and the salvation we have in Him gives us comfort in times when disaster strikes and clarity when the rest of the world spends it's time looking for answers in numbers and aliens rescuing children to start a new civilization.  Our hope gives us a security that when all of the world ends we will have an eternal home with a loving and gracious God who cares for us more than anything else!  I have a God that is all-Knowing and His name is not Nicolas Cage.