So, we came across a scary movie....
A family dealing with a monster that comes from their own grief.
Ok, I have to be honest. I did not watch this movie. I do not do scary movies. I only watched the one scary movie back in 2018 because I was doing the Year of Courage.
So, I love the concept of the movie, or being haunted by your grief. Like I don't want that to happen in year life but having something that is so hard to deal with actually become a physical thing that you can fight seems like a very interesting bit of work. We all wrestle with all of out emotions at different point in the lives, and throughout every day.
I think, that without seeing the movie, wheat I an connect is that God tells us that there is a season for everything. Not only that but no where in the Bible does it say that we have to cover up our emotions for any reason! We are allowed to feel what we feel when we feel it. We just can let it control our lives, or it becomes a monster.
Mr. Strangolagalli uses Luke 22:14
"And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground."
In one of the faith books I am reading this year R.C. Sproul talks about this same moment, but in Matthew. He talks about Jesus praying so hard that the blood vessels in his forehead started to bust. I can't imagine being in that much anguish.
I have felt pain of loss.
I have lost friendships that I still mourn to this day, even though some it's been more than ten years. I have lost possessions that meant so much to me. I have lost family members, and I am not prepared to lose the ones closest to me.
The worst grief I have ever felt was loosing my cousin Dean.
I know that I have talked about that day on here before because it was in my Year of Review challenge in 2016. I won't go into all the details again, but I have never understood why people tore their clothes in the Bible when they encountered grief, until that day. It was like a weight that needed to come off but there was nothing that I could pull off of me to make the burden less.
That is what I also love about Jesus and God. I love that God feels these same feelings we go through everyday, He created them. However, I love that we know Jesus actually walked in those emotions in human form. That He truly walked a mile in our shoes, and knows how ever emotions we will ever feel will feel like first hand. How many people who are part of royalty come down and to a commoner level and work, life, and die the way that we do? None. They can give up their royal line and become one us forever, but never be royal again. Jesus, King of Kins, Lord of Lord, Prince of Peace, gave up his thrown for 33 earthly yeas to live, breath, work, laugh, cry, love, hurt, and die so that we might be saved. Then got to come back to His thrown to rule at His rightful place! No other King has done so!
Our emotions are meant for a season, even if that season is a few minutes of frustration. We are meant to have them and feel them.
