How Does the Movie End?

My wife and I are like a lot of people in many ways. I am sure that there are people who have had some experiences like us. One thing we seem to experience is we see a movie in parts. In parts? We will see a movie but we miss the start of it so we need to watch it again to catch the beginning. Some we have seen we see the start and most of it but miss the end. Then there are others that we have seen the beginning and the end but miss everything in bewtween. It drives us nuts especially when its a movie we really would like to see. This past weekend was no different. We got to see the middle but totally missed the rest. I was thinking about the movie and how I would like to see how it ended. On the way to an appointment, I realized God was speaking to my heart about people and their lives. People know how their lives started and what is happening to them now. The problem is they don't know how it will end.

Our lives are a journey that we take as we go along during the years we are here on earth. As with most journeys, we don't always know what lies around the bend of the road we travel. We can only see what we see now. We cannot see what the future holds. We have to wait to see what the next day brings our way. If we all could know what the next day will bring us, we would all make different choices to prevent certains things from happening while embracing other decisions because we like the results we would see. That is the rub for all of us. We cannot see what lies ahead. If however we have a relationship with God, we can put our trust in the one who knows the beginning from the end and everything that occurs in between. He knows the plans he has for us and the things we will face on our journey we call life. He has promised that we will not face more than we can handle. He will be there every step of the way to see us home. He has seen the movie of our lives and knows how it ends. We can trust him to make sure it ends "they lived happily ever after". Of course the difference between a fairy tale and going to Heaven is that Heaven is real and we will spend our eternity "happy ever after" in his presence. So if we want to see the ending of our movie, keep looking at God and his plan and we will finally see how it ends!

Some day we hope to see how the movie we were watching ends but if we don't it's okay. The most important movie for us is our own that will end one day. Besides, the movie we were watching has some really bad theology! Our filmmaker's theology is right on!