august rush

This is the title of a film about a young orphaned boy who is desperate to find his family and, at the same time develop his internal gifted-ness. As he begins to express his new found voice, his world view completely changes and he also catches glimpses of a new life that earlier he could only imagine. Touching as this story is, it is still Hollywood. Many movies are inspired by true Biblical scenarios. The born again christian, much like this boy, has also craved a new life. He found it in Jesus. Once we were living in darkness, doubt, fear and confusion. We longed for direction, hungered for truth, desperately searched for the light, and struggled in a stormy sea yearning for a safe harbor. In Jesus we found the salvation we urgently needed. The glory of life with Jesus illuminates our path and leads us to His sovereign throne. Living for Jesus, worshipping Him in spirit and in truth, serving Him as a response to the love He showed us by dying for us on the cross, has become our new life. Paul describes it in his letter to the Christians in Rome as “walking in a newness of life”. In his second letter to the Corinthians, he states, “...new things have come”. Revelation 21:5 says “...I am making all things new.” This new way of life is something so different from the old life that it requires the death of our “old man”, putting him to spiritual death and burying him in the waters of baptism. Our former spirit man had to die so a newly created spirit man could emerge and be “born again”. This brand new man now longs for close, spiritual connection with Yahweh, his new Father. This new man now rejects his own personal controlling false gods including entertainment, power, cravings of the flesh, lust, hate and pride to name a few. This born again, new spirit man begins to receive blessings from the one and only true God in the form of God like joy never before experienced, great peace that comforts even in the face of death, and a certainty of hope in life eternal at the throne of the Almighty God. This new creation, this new man now has a view of the world filtered through the word of God. He is a disciple of Jesus and as such is guaranteed the inheritance that Christ enjoys in heaven. These glorious treasures are beyond any earthly comparison. Talk about a great movie idea. 

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