After watching the Academy Awards (while working on the computer–multi-tasking, you know….) I was drawn into a strong desire to see the move, Slumdog Millionaire. I have this little game I play with myself, every year I watch the Academy Awards to see if anyone, I mean anyone, thanks God for their good fortune or even acknowledges God at all.
Well, unless I missed something, in 2007, there was one talented gifted Black Actor who thanked God for his good fortune. Hooray! God bless that man! This year two men acknowledged God in their ‘thank you’ speech. Two men from India….WOW…..that made me want to see the movie any more! But, enough of this ‘rabbit trail’.
The movie is wonderful. Well done, very graphic, very realistic, and very haunting…..right into our soul. The poverty, abuse and the outrageous life of the ‘slumdogs’ there reveals reality we don’t want to acknowledge, but it is there. The movie is a story of tenacity in the face of unbelievable odds, sacrifice and pain that in the end gives us all hope.
I have seen poverty such as was shown, in Tijuana, Mexico. My friend who spent time in Africa says the says the same thing exists there. WHOOPS…..I just remembered that the night before I had seen a TV movie on Lifetime–a true story, FOR THE LOVE OF A CHILD, based on a book called SILENCE BROKENby Sara O’Meara and Yvonne Fedderson.
This TV movie is about abused children in our country, United States of America. We are appalled by the utter depravity we see in other countries, but we have it here too. There were stories in the movie to make you want to throw-up in seeing what human beings can do to small children, especially contemptible when it is their own children. In the past there have been terrible news stories of a mother drowning her children, a man setting his son on fire…..and more and more. In the slums of America crime and pain are a way of life, as all over the world.
How interesting that this malignity of man is the same in all these countries….almost like there is a master plan. Of course there is a master plan of the enemy to destroy mankind and he uses men, their thoughts, their pain and their actions to do it.
Many men and women are searching for God’s plan in their life, with little regard to the plan of the devil in their lives. Many do not live in the slums but endure pain and rejection over and over. God’s plan for man’s life is for good and not evil–God’s plan is to build the Kingdom of God on earth with Grace, Mercy and Love and he uses men and women to do that. We must not be deceived, the devil uses men and women to bring about his plans–to kill, rob and destroy–he is a liar and duplicates all he can that God does for good, he does for evil.
How is this possible? Ignorance of the facts. Denial of the supernatural. Fear of confronting the enemy. Most of all a lack of knowledge of Who God really is…..What Jesus accomplished and the power and authority men and women have in and through Him with the Holy Spirit.
We live in a real world and action such as the women took in the movie, FOR THE LOVE OF A CHILD, where they took in (and still do) abused children and love and care for them, attempting to change their lives, is absolutely necessary–more and more–in every country. (To help their efforts, or for help, or the movie, go to: www.childhelp.com)
However, the Bible is very clear our battle is not with flesh and blood. How do we win a war we don’t acknowledge? How do we win a war when we don’t know what weapons we have at our disposal? If we don’t become warriors we will be prisoners of war!
For more knowledge on this, read the Bible. The book of Ephesians is sooo good, but there is a world of information in all the New Testament. What did Jesus do? There’s an answer. For the insights and experiences our team has had in fighting this war, our book, ANGELS AND DEMONS, HOLLYWOOD KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE is available at the top of this page under Carol’s Books. It is full of information and real life stories…..
Pressing in and pressing on…….