Seek Me to Live

Happy seek Me to live Wednesday.

Did any of you see the movie "Book of Eli" this year? Not necessarily for the kiddos... but a profound movie for The more mature.

Without spoiling it, here's the basic premise: Eli, played by Denzel Washington, is a man on a mission in a post-apocalyptic world. His mission? To carry the last Bible in existence across a war-torn, lawless United States to an unknown western location... all because he believes God told him so.

Yeah. Hollywood made movie like that. Kinda cool.

Anyways, there area couple of very poignant dialogues in the movie that God used to convict me. In one scene, Denzel's character is asked by his significantly younger travel companion:

"What was it like in the world before?"

Denzel responds:

"Everyone had more than they needed. People threw away things that folks kill each other for today."

At another point in the movie, Eli witnesses a robbery, rape, and murder... yet does nothing. He instead clutches his pack with the Bible in it, hides behind some rubble, and says to himself over and over again:

"Stay on the path. It's none of your concern. Stay on the path. It's none of your concern."

We have access to God and his Word at any time. Too often, however, we fail to access it all - simply because of the abundance of all of the other "stuff" in our lives. We exalt its importance, we defend its reliability, we proclaim its truth... but we sometimes do all of those without letting its words form God's life in us on a regular, intentional, prayerful, relational basis.

And while we are on a mission from God through this ministry at Prairie Lakes, his two greatest commands trump our ministry: to first love him and to love others. Let's not make the excuse of being too busy doing ministry that we fail to obey his greatest commands whenever and wherever opportunities arise to do so.

Rent that movie. You won't be disappointed.