Which
Pill Will You Take? Which Pill Have You Taken?
Then Jesus spoke:
You're blessed when you've lost it all.
God's kingdom is there for the finding.
You're blessed when you're revenously hungry.
Then you're ready for the Messianic meal.
You're blessed when the tears flow freely.
Joy comes with the morning.
"Count
yourself blessed every time someone cuts you down or throws you out,
every time someone smears or blackens your name to discredit me.
What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and that that
person is uncomfortable. You can be glad when that happens -- skip
like a lamb, if you life! -- for even though they don't like it, I
do....and all heaven applauds. And know that you are in good
company; my preachers and witnesses have always been treated like this.
But
it's trouble ahead if you think you have it made.
What you have is all you'll ever get.
And it's trouble ahead if you're satisfied with yourself.
Your self will not satisfy you for long.
And it's trouble ahead if you think life's all fun and games.
There's suffering to be met, and you're going to meet it.
Luke 6:20-25 (MSG)
What you have is all you'll ever get.
And it's trouble ahead if you're satisfied with yourself.
Your self will not satisfy you for long.
And it's trouble ahead if you think life's all fun and games.
There's suffering to be met, and you're going to meet it.
Luke 6:20-25 (MSG)
The
main character in the movie The
Matrix is
Neo (literally “new” from the Greek neos), a
man haunted by the possibility that there is something more to his life
than the meager and unsatisfying existence he now endures.
He
encounters Morpheus (literally the changer also from Greek) and begins
to get clarity on this thing called the matrix, the non-real oxymoronic
‘virtual reality’ in which he currently exists.
Neo
is invited to come face to face with his dilemma, choose real life or
continue existence in his false non-real world.
He is offered two pills.
Much like in the scripture above Neo can choose either the real
or the false life, the happy or doomed life.
The
red pill is the former and the blue pill is the latter.
There’s no going back it’s either the one or the other.
If he takes the blue pill he’ll never again know that there was
another realm, another world, an actual reality beyond his current
virtual non-life world.
The
blue pill is the easy pill, the one that most everyone takes.
However, If he takes the red pill he embarks on the life that is
truly life, the life where he discovers what life actually is, the life
that escapes all the elaborate matrixes which we construct in order to
avoid facing reality.
Either
way there’s no going back.
Which
pill would you take?
Which pill have you taken?
Reread Luke 6:20-24, do some self-examination.
If you’ve been living the blue pill life you’ve just now been
given a second chance at the red one.
Perhaps you’re one of the many who have been trying to live the
red pill life without ever taking the red pill.
Take
a moment, take a deep breath and then swallow it, asking God to take you
for whatever ride he has had planned for you since before the beginning
of time.
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