A Hollywood Disappointment
I’ve concluded that the movie industry has caused us to embrace a paradigm of desiring to live life in highlights. A movie has a way of combining days, weeks or years into a 2-hour drama or action-packed series of events. And those are the best movies; regardless of the genre, it’s the ones that grab our attention and stimulate every emotion. They’re the ones that make two hours feel like only five minutes.
A really good movie will always make life seem completely boring.
A large percentage of our population, at one time or another, has fantasized about vicariously living their lives through one of their favorite movies. Our imaginations become stimulated and, at times, run away with these thoughts. There is nothing wrong with that…
But here lies a problem….
The problem is that we develop a paradigm of desiring to live in highlights. As “drama filled” that our lives may be, it’s not a movie. Life doesn’t happen as fast as the movies. Processes are not lived-out in minutes. Victories aren’t experienced in a half hour.
Movies are NOT mountaintop living. They are highlighted moments. And although we all desire them, they can deceive us. They pull us away from living life in the valleys.
Valleys are monotonous. Valleys are boring and tedious. Valleys are times of loneliness and weeping. And frankly, these are great times of development. Most of our lives are lived in this mode. They only prepare us for our time in the spotlight – the mountaintop. Jesus lived thirty years in the Valley for a 3½ year highlight. That means that 90% of His life was in a tedious and mostly uninteresting state. And it was all preparation time to change the world.
Don’t fall prey to a Hollywood disappointment in your life. You have a story to tell. It’s forged in the valleys of your life. God is the Author of your life-story. Life must be lived out! Let the history of your life be HIS-Story about you.
Blog entry #29 – Loving the Valley!
Pastor this is good. Wow. It is so true we so many times want to live our life from highlight to highlight. I have come to embrace my valleys as the time that God is processing me to be able to fulfill His purpose in my life.
We can’t go by watching Movies and TV because its not showing you what is really going on in your life. we have to just let the Lord tell us and show us that he is real and he won’t let us down.
We should not try to live our lives through movies.
Exactly what we learned yesterday in Bible college. We most prepare for the day that God puts us in the highlight. We have something to say and it will come that time when we most speak what we have prepare for our whole life.
We must be faithful in the valley in our lives. Its a lifelong preparation that takes work and in the end, depending on the valley, will be worth it.
GOD never has the same plan for every single person we are all created special. We have our individual gifts and talents. We can not live our lives wanting to be a hand when God made us to be a toe. If we embrace who we are and who God has made us to be. It will avoid disappointments creates by Hollywood showing us someone else’s story. God has a special story for each and every one of us. Seek God and live out the story He has for your life. Jeremiah 29:11
OMGosh! This is so true. Sometimes I wish God would just allow my life to play out like the movie I create for my life in my mind but He must not be watching (LOL) I’m just gonna assume He’s a lot, lot, lot, lot (infinity) more smarter than I am.
This blog really shook me up. For I know how easy it is to become
immersed in television movies. For with these movies you don’t
have to think. That is really sad and such a waste of life. I now
keep the television off as much as possible. Keep moving forward
to do the work in GOD’S KINGDOM for that is why I was put on this
earth.