Jan 27, 2008
James Harleman, one of the pastors at Mars Hill Church in Seattle has an interesting post up on the Cinemagogue blog entitled Film in the Era of Daddy Issues. Here is the final paragraph and do go read the rest if you are into films and may have Daddy issues.
I hope these glorious, decades-old daddies of film heroism give us a lark in the cinema as they keep on punching out the opponents, and I hope they also spur us to consider why we are hungry for an everlasting dad that remains faithful and true to us, who shows up and decimates our opposition, who sets things right and even clarifies our direction and purpose. If we stop and consider, some might find that “…the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him…” - Ephesians 1
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While I truly believe this premise and have total head knowledge of it, in my 28 years of knowing God as my Heavenly Father, believing His Son died and was raised for my sins, and experiencing His Helper living in my heart, I still never saw Jesus in the bleachers giving me a fist pump when I made that great play in the little league finals, or show me how to change a flat tire, or tell me how long it took Him to figure out that a wife doesn't want a list of solutions to the problem she's telling you about, she just wants you to listen and hold her.
Even though we are comforted by God, perhaps some wounds aren't meant to be "fully" healed, here on earth, so that we may truly put into action 2 Corinthians 1
… the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
...lest we forget our pain in helping other through theirs. Or not.
Posted by: Mike Radcliffe | January 30, 2008 05:09 PM