Today is transfiguration Sunday in the Church Calendar. Wait, you say, why does a Baptipentecosaltcatholutheran keep track of the church calendar? Because it's important and we need to think on these things.
Two movies of importance to me in the last several years are the Matrix (one) and the 300. Both are loaded with prophetic messages that people need to hear. Both are violent. Both rated R. Both really hard to watch sometimes.
A little like Jesus. They demonstrate something most people want to turn away from.
In the Matrix Neo is shown true reality. Once he sees it, he is changed forever. He knows that everything we see on this side of the veil is temporal, temporary, subject to change, unreal.
When Jesus appears with Elijah and Moses on the mount of Transfiguration the Disciples saw true reality for the first time. They wanted it. They wanted to capture it. They wanted to stay in it. But they didn't.
Eventually they did. They lived in it. We all will. We will all step out of the matrix into true reality someday. When that happens we will be like HIM and with HIM.
Getting there means a battle we all fight. Alone and with others. That's the 300. Standing for what is right.
Unless we see our circumstances as they really are we live in a dream world oppressed of the Devil.
We were meant to be victorious in this life and in the true life to come.
So, don't give up, don't believe the lies, Jesus is Real, this is all temporal. Jesus was here before any of this existed, he will be here when it's gone again. We can be with HIM eternally. We'll be somewhere. With him is far far better.
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