Avatar Is Proving That We Are All Aliens

This is truly amazing.

OK, perhaps not quite in the way you are initially thinking, but it's true none the less. The following article is from CNN about people's response to James Cameron's movie sensation Avatar.

Audiences Experience 'Avatar" Blues

When I read this, the first thing that came to mind was, "Yes! Halleluia and Amen! Come quickly Lord Jesus!"

Even those who do not believe in a deity of any sort can recognize the soul-sickening desire for more: More beauty, more honor, more love, more of everything that is right and good in this world. The Creator of all has so much more in store for us and we are created to long for it. Just look at the descriptions of heaven and the new earth in Revelation 4, 5, 21, & 22. Yes, James Cameron has a vivid imagination, but Who do you think created him that way?

Did I long to travel to Pandora after watching the film? Yes. Several times. But what got me so much more excited was knowing the the real thing will be so much better. This is how we can witness to those around us who express the same longing after watching the film: And our new world will never be invaded!

2 Corinthians 5:1-3, 5
For we know that if our earthly house, a tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. And in fact, we groan in this one, longing to put on our house from heaven,... And the One who prepared us for this very thing is God, who gave us the Spirit for a down payment.


Hebrews 11:13-16
These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth. Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been remembering that land they came from, they would have had the opportunity to return. But they now aspire to a better land - a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God. for He has prepared a city for them. 

Don't be fooled. People long for better. Are you going to deny telling them about Him who will create it anew?

Such A Beautiful Place

Yesterday we took Lauren and Elijah to see the 3D version of Avatar. It's a stunningly beautiful film whether you like the story line or not- which we did. Not only was it fun to see the kids be enthralled with 3D effects, but as the movie progressed, to watch them get involved in it.

About a third of the way through the film two of the main characters get to fly to a new location called the Halleluia mountain range on the alien world Pandora. It is a surprisingly, spectacular location since parts of the mountains actually float in the air. During the scene one of the people in response to the beauty says a curse word, and I heard Elijah say aloud to himself, "Why are they saying bad words in such a beautiful place?"

That pierced my heart.

Here I had been earlier that morning praising God for the beauty and majesty of His creation. What He has made beautiful for us in this world, and yet I take it so much for granted. We all do: With the words that we say, the impatience that we express, and the annoyance with which we pridefully snub what He has created for us to enjoy and take pleasure in.

Psalm 139:14
I will praise You, because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, and I know this very well.


The point isn't that everything seems beautiful all the time, but to see the beauty in all things at least some of the time. Was the movie Avatar a great, Godly movie? No. In fact, if anything it teaches to worship Mother Nature. But that doesn't mean that I can't see the beauty and value in portions of it. I learned a great lesson from God through my son even though that was not James Cameron's intent.

How are you treating the beauty around you? Have you seen it lately?

Luke 12:27-28
Consider how the wildflowers grow: they don't labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these! If that's how God clothes the grass, which is in the field today and is thrown in the furnace tomorrow, how much more will He do for you - you of little faith?