Thursday, January 6, 2011

God speaks of his love in the funniest of places...

So, a quick disclaimer: I am not one to find meaning in secular plot lines. I didn't get all wiggly and excited when Neo showed up as a messiah figure in the Matrix, I don't use LOTR to illustrate Christian truth, and I never see symbolism where it is not. Usually I simply put on my goggles of suspension of disbelief, sit back and enjoy the ride. However, every once in a while God will quietly, gently speak to my heart through totally inoquious things and it is quite powerful.

This is somewhat of a spoiler, so if you haven't seen the TRON: Legacy and you actually care enough about it to not want to know certain details then stop reading... NOW.

So, quick background: Kevin Flynn has created a digital world and was betrayed by a program he created called CLU. While inside he discovered isomorphic algorithms, which are essentially digital life forms that manifested inside the system; they will change the entire world. CLU saw them as an imperfection, and as he had been charged to create the perfect system, he wiped them all out, all but one, Quorra.

Flynn's son Sam gets zapped into the system and towards the endish of the movie asks Quorra how she had found Flynn. She says that Flynn had found her. That when CLU began to purge the ISO's, she was smuggled to the outerlands by sympathetic programs, but soon, CLU's black guards had found her and she was surrounded. "I prepared for the end... Then I felt a hand on my shoulder from above. Nice and warm. And When I looked up.. I saw him, The creator. Your father. I guess you could say... I'm a rescue."

I watched that, and I know that it wasn't in any sort of way a religious reference. But this thought crossed my mind, "In the same way, you were doomed for destruction, and you felt my hand pull you up, take you in. I am your creator and I did this. I rescued you to be mine." God used a line to hit my heart and show me his love. Something so simple, so secular, so unintentionally profound. I loved it.

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