Hollywood

I don’t trust Hollywood. The entertainment industry of my home state, California, mostly infuriates me.

Time and again Hollywood produces films, television and music that fly in the face of my Christian faith. Christian values and teaching are relentlessly assaulted in almost every area of the media. A recent example of this treachery is a film where Jesus is depicted as a married man, mortal and buried in a grave outside of Jerusalem.

Documentaries on weekly television which interpret scriptures based upon the word of a psychic are also on my list. Music and lyrics so offensive it curls my hair and literally can make me nauseous. These constant attacks on my beliefs leave me with a abhorrence to most things, Hollywood.

Hollywood and the players there who are set on a worldly, sometimes evil agenda. However, once in a great while there are people who work in this industry who are heroes. There are those who stand against the tide of immorality. Praise God!

Once in a while the film industry finds a moral conscious and releases a film that God would even pay to see *grin.* The Chronicles of Narnia, The Passion of the Christ, and even Evan Almighty are films that affect mainstream audiences for the cause of Christ.

Although the directors and writers may not get the story line perfect they succeed in reflecting some of God’s immensity to a lost world.

Last weekend I went to see Evan Almighty. Some may be offended by a few liberties taken in this film. I however, live with an unbeliever and know that the story line and the inferences to God are close enough to elicit a thoughtful consideration of our Creator.

This film was delightful and filled with many truths. I laughed throughout the film and viewed the story as a lighthearted attempt to introduce nonbelievers to a God they do not know.

What impressed me the most was how the film delved into the human/God relationship through Evan’s unwillingness to obey. Dose this sound like us?

Without giving away much of the story, God asks Evan to build an Ark. Evan fights with God through the entire process. At the end of the film Evan says to God, “You accomplished this (feat) with me fighting against You all the way.”

I related to this telling of the classic Bible story. I can also fight against God and yet He accomplishes is purposes in spite of me and with my help anyway.

I left the theater hugging my daughter, chuckling at the absurdity of it all and awe inspired at the core truths about our God.

Just for today, Hollywood doesn’t seem so bad. For today, I can see a glimpse of our patient and loving God through the big screen. And it was good!

Lord God, I pray you will use this film to seek those who are hopelessly lost in a life of destruction. You hold the key to the door and will use every avenue, all avenues, to seek out those You have chosen. O, Lord, find many this summer. Thank you for bold men and women who are willing to risk much to expose the darkness. In Jesus name, Amen.

Be blessed my friends and see you at the movies!

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