March 7, 2020 (Saturday)
Some movies, not based on fact but on imagination, teach a few things about God’s relationship to us humans that are worth noticing. The basis of one story is the experience of an ordinary man who hears God giving him instructions. There were several movies about the same general idea. In one of them, God puts a man in charge of a neighborhood. He takes the place of God (remember this is fantasy) and hears prayers.
Well, people have problems and they pray about them. The guy hears those prayers, but he is overwhelmed by the huge numbers of prayers and all he can hear is a jarring sound of discordant voices crying out for help. There are so many, many cries that the man cannot understand the words.
The movie makes the point that God hears all our prayers. A mere human taking his place in only a small neighborhood is overwhelmed by that, but God hears our prayers every minute of every day.
When I pray, I am confident that God hears me, but God hears the prayers of billions of human beings, all at the same time. He does not make us “wait our turn,” but places us at the head of the line, as it were, and hears us, dealing with us personally.
Made me think of a chorus, “God can do anything, anything anything; God can do anything but fail.” A similar song appears below.
They are just fantasy movies that got me to thinking, but some of the stuff surely is worth thinking about.