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The Matrix

It's supposed to be a classic, this movie I watched a couple days ago.
In fact, I think it is. Such a philosophical movie what what.
Anyway, quick run through; the world is being controlled by secret agents of artificial intelligence, to be honest, I don't even know if the matrix was those scary sketchy robotic like creatures or if it was  the computer running the humans and being in control of their minds giving them false realities or what it was! I was sleepy and scared as I watched the movie. It's title? The Matrix.😁

But here's my point.
The truth of  the matter ( for the main actor Neo) being that nothing he had ever experienced in his life was actually real was a hard pill to swallow. (he discovered that everything he had ever experienced was only an illusion.)
Neo always knew there was something that he didn't understand, something odd about the world and he was determined to make sense of it and find clarity.
Neo meets Morpheus, pretty heroic all knowing guy, who gives him a pill that changes his life forever. The pill that opens his eyes, shows him what's actually happening. (The humans were being controlled, made to live in a virtual world and think it was reality)
One of the conversations that stood out for me was between Neo and another guy, who was telling him that Morpheus is a user who "frees you to rule you" if I may briefly paraphrase. "He opens your eyes but you are subject to obey him"
I have really twitched the script  but you get what I'm saying.
Guess who I immediately thought of. Just take a wild guess.
God.
Sometimes that's the image we have of Him.
And yet being freed by Him is true freedom even though it seems like something else.
Because you are made stronger than your sin. So yes you are freed to be enslaved. Freed to follow. 

Paul explains it really nice in the 6th chapter of His book to the Romans saying, freed from sin to become a servant of righteousness. 

But no, God isn't power hungry or needing to satisfy His ego by rescuing people demanding submission but He saves, and we owe Him our white flags. It is in fact, the way we respond.


By the way, Neo ends up being a hero and saving their world and freeing everybody.

Your purpose might not be as big, but God saves who he saves for His glory.

You gotta want to be a part of this!

This holy matrix! 




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