| when mosquitos bite you on your knuckles!!!! it is the most annoying thing because it starts to hurt whenever i scratch them there........
Anyways, this past week i was watching armageddon on the television and i was enjoying every minute of it!! In my opinion it is a very underrated movie, yes i know the plot is very cheesy and whatnot, but the movie is very entertaining. Anyways while watching this movie i began to realize how powerful movies really are, for instance during the final sequences of the movie a very emotional encounter occurs between the characters! Because of this scene i was taken back and tears formed in my eyes *begins testoterone filled rant* but they did not roll down they just simply formed !!!*end 's man rant*. Anyways this got the wheels in my head turning (all 2 of them ) and i began to think of other movies, that had me on the brink of tears or just flat out crying. The one that kept coming back to me was the Passion of the Christ, in which i was flat out crying and could not even continue to look because it felt so real!! After this i began thinking why did i cry at the passion, was it just because the MOVIE in itself got my emotions riled up. I remember saying after the movie, that the reason that i cried was because i realized just how much christ went through for me. But then i began to ask myself, "why am i not as gripped by the gospel everytime i think of the cross, and the amazing gift that i recieved there?".
I remember Once hearing Joshua Harris say that admired the way that CJ was brought to tears everytime he remembered the cross.......................
Isaiah 53
1Who has believed what they heard from us?[a]
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3He was despised and rejected[b] by men;
a man of sorrows,[c] and acquainted with[d] grief;[e]
and as one from whom men hide their faces[f]
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his stripes we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him;
he has put him to grief;[g]
when his soul makes[h] an offering for sin,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see[i] and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
12Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,[j]
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,[k]
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors
What a wonderful Passage................does this passage grip you and bring you to tears, the way a MOVIE does?? |
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-- we will be hiking and visiting friends.