The evangelistic newspaper of the modern Jesus Army
2010
“I CAN SEE GOD UP HERE!”
Inception, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, is a film which has had people talking. Like The Matrix, it cleverly explores the nature of reality.
What would happen if people could invade our dreams? What is true, what is illusion?
In Shakespeare’s famous play, Hamlet, the hero tells his friend, Horatio, “there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy”.
Many of us have a gut feeling that’s true: we know that we don’t know everything. Life is more mysterious, richer and more complex than we imagine.
God “puts questions in our minds about the past and the future” (Ecclesiastes 3:11, The Bible) – or as another version puts it, more poetically, He has “put eternity in our hearts”.
Some people arrogantly insist that only what they see exists.
But can you see an atom?
Russian astronaut, Yuri Gagarin, famously said in space “I can’t see God up here.”
In reality, Gagarin didn’t say that at all! He really said “the earth is blue... it’s wonderful, it’s amazing!” Wonderful. Full of wonder. And so it is.
The people that met Jesus met a man who was full of wonders. He spoke more powerful words than anyone, before or since. His life was totally extraordinary. He gave hope to the despairing and life to the dead. He performed miracles – and still does.
How do you respond to the wonder-worker? Are you prepared to open your mind and heart to Jesus? Let Him show you that life can be more than you have known it to be so far. Why not wake up to the wonder of knowing Him?
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