Expelled...

Yesterday I went and watched Ben Stein's new movie "Expelled". It was very interesting, and in a humor only Ben Stein can bring, funny. It is basically a documentary about the persecution scientists are experiencing because they believe in "Intelligent Design" as appose to Darwinism. The movie is not about this one is right and this one is wrong, but about allowing the opportunity to maturely discuss the facts. I had never seen a documentary in the movie theater before. Its was cool because instead of just pointless entertainment, it was very stimulating to my mind and to my spirit.

The whole thing brought my mind back to maturity on many different levels. It is crazy how full grown men and women can act like little children in their bickering. You see it all the time in politics, science, and even churches. It's kinda funny because they look like grown ups, but they act like children.

We are emotional beings. I praise God for that. I love to feel emotion: love, anger, sadness, joy. The problem arises with the fact that are emotions are always going up and down. That is natural. There is nothing wrong with that. It is the way we were created. We have good days and we have bad days. Sometimes we have bad days on good days and vise-versa. That is the way our emotions work. Up and down, up and down. Immature people live their lives by their emotions. As Christians we need to be basing our lives on His Word! You see, even though we are inconsistent, His Word is solid and consistent. As we begin to live our lives according to His Word, we handle things differently.

That is why you can see people who were raised in church all their lives, but they are very immature when it comes to their walk with God. Or you could see someone who has been saved for just a year and they are mature beyond their years because they have allowed change. The change comes when you build your life on the solid foundation of His word. If we don’t, we continue to base our lives off of our emotions which are naturally up and down all the time because we are emotional creatures. But the word is constant and never changing.

Last thing... back to the movie (sorry about getting side tracked). My favorite part was when a leading darwinist is having the hate out on God. At the end of his spew on God, he says the reason he is an athiest and the reason he encourages others to do the same is because there is such a "liberating" feeling when you come to the realization that there is no God. At that very moment he lost the arguement in my mind. In a very smart way he was saying a very childish thing. He does not want to answer to authority! It would be very "liberating" if I just decided that there was no law and I could steel and kill and everything would be okay. Or I would feel a "liberating" feeling if I decided that I'm not going to man up to any of my responsibilities. Forget the people that were counting on me. I'll just leave them hanging! It is nonsense!

God I am so thankful for Your authority in my life. I wouldn't change it for the world. Without it, we would destroy ourselves. Thank you for keeping me in line. I submit to you.