The Human Experience

So if you've never read the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, I recommend you check it out. It is super prophetic and awesome and it spawned a super prophetic and awesome movie with the same name.

Anyway, I got to see the movie today and without giving too many spoilers away, I will try to tell what it meant to me.

Firstly, the story is set in a futuristic world where people have given up certain things like emotions, color, animals, etc. in order to lead lives free from pain or inconvenience. There are only a couple of people who retain the ability to have these things via memories of the past, and one of them in our protagonist. The story is much bigger (and more amazing) than that, but I want you to actually read the book, so I shall say no more about it.

But I was watching the movie today (opening weekend!) and during the movie they showed clips of the modern (20th-21st century) world from various locations. We saw wars and rumors of wars, dances, weddings, prayers, Christmases, and hunting trips where innocent elephants were poached for their ivory tusks. There were just so many clips of everyday life: the big and the small. And in it was such a mixture of beautiful and horrible things.

And I saw that the world was beautiful. Sometimes it's easy to forget that. Horrible things happen every day to people I know and in places far away but still the world is beautiful. The human experience is beautiful.

Because the bad cannot mar the good. It cannot change it, cannot erase it, cannot nullify it. It can only exist apart from it and one day it shall be no more. What Yahweh created is still there, underneath all the wreckage that was put upon this world by the curse that came when Adam sinned. But since Yahshua came and took away the curse, creation awaits the redemption. And when all the grease and grime and muck on the surface is washed away, underneath will be all that Yahweh created, unsullied and whole. Because the bad couldn't touch it, not really.

And the bad is disappearing. No, it wouldn't look that way at first as Babylon self-destructs but that's what Babylon is supposed to do. It can do nothing else. And so as Babylon dies, even though it looks like things are getting worse, we know that things are getting better because the death of Babylon is the cleaning of the grease and grime of the world. Once Babylon is dead, Yahweh's Kingdom will still remain underneath it all. The good. The beautiful.

The world is beautiful. The human experience in its entirety is beautiful because nothing can change that beauty. Nothing can affect or alter it in any way. The beauty of knowing Yahweh and experiencing His presence and partnering with Him in stewarding creation is unending and eternal. And I, for one, am grateful.