Monday, February 7, 2011 @ 4:24 AM |
Movies and morals (or, another fail!entry)
So. On last last Saturday, there was this sort of emotional breakdown and just my luck, Happy Feet was on Channel 5. (I've never watched it before; that's how much of an introvert I am, heh.) So in a few minutes I was feeling perky again (not to mention a load of help from someone else).At the end of the movie, my parents came home and my mum, with whom I had had quarrelled with before she'd gone out, asked me what I was watching. And then, I had this kind of epiphany. 'Kind of' being the key words. I just garbled this to my mum in a stroke of epiphany-ness. (If you've watched Happy Feet before, you might get this. If you haven't then. Uhm. Go and read it up on Wikipedia or something ... I guess.)Mumble can't sing. So what does he do? Instead of singing, he dances. What's that fuss?Humans can't understand PenguinSpeak. However, Mumble's dancing - his actions and behaviour - catches their attention and this enables the penguins to reach out to the humans and have them stop overfishing and depleting the penguins' fish supply. The moral of the movie : Actions speak louder than words. "But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. ... but the one who lives it out - he will be blessed in what he does."
- James 1:22-25 Read and heed James' advice. Do not just listen to the Word and go 'uh-huh, yuh yuh' or spout stuff about God and be done with it. No. Live out God's Word. Demonstrate His love in your doings; show compassion and understanding and bring people to Him through your actions. "What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have the works? Can this kind of faith save him? If a brother or a sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and eat well," but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it? So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself."
- James 2:14-17As much as you say you're an angelic person with a kind heart, quarrelling with people, not helping others and being rude proves your point wrong. Listening to the Word and still partaking in sinful indulgences; saying one thing and doing another; believing in God and not being a good testimony only results in one thing : Redundancy.
Always bear in mind that your behaviour and actions are things people notice more about you.
On another note: If you have anything to say to anybody now - an apology, a thank-you-very-much, then say it - and don't forget to be it. Saying 'sorry' with airs and a hoity-toity attitude isn't going to help much. It takes a load of your chest and it's always better to say or do things when there is time to say or do it.
There. I do hope I managed to get the basic points across without too much wrinkling-nose-in-disgust-or-confusion. I do hope I get better at this sort of postings, too.
God loves you. Very very much.
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