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For Every Great Work...
Vol I: Week 2
April 2007
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April's Question:
Are you leading a driven life or a directed life?
I have a confession. I loved the TV show X-Files and when Chris Carter, X-Files' creator aired a new show in the late 1990's call Millennium, I was hooked again.
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Written by Darin Morgan
Directed by Darin Morgan
Edited by James Coblentz
Aired May 1, 1998 |
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One of Millennium's shows stood out way above the rest for me, as well as for its audience as a whole, titled "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me".
The story opens with four vile demons,(Abum, Blurk, Greb and Toby) servants of evil who pose as elderly men, gather for their nightly meeting in a downtown donut shop and discuss over coffee and crullers their own personal methods of leading humanity down the path to hell. Let's listen into some of Abum's sharing of how he taunts the human soul taken from the actual script from the show...
BEDROOM EARLY MORNING
A middle-aged, heavy-set MAN, BROCK, is in bed. We hear an
alarm buzzing loudly. He hits the snooze button and stops
the buzzer. He gets up as if rise but then lies back down
at the foot of the bed. The alarm buzzes again and he
stops it with a foot. He sits up, but falls back again.
The alarm buzzes and he lays his foot on the buzzer and
leaves it there.
ABUM
I mean, I ask you: what evil genius
invented the alarm clock? No other
creature but man could concoct a
device that interrupts, on a daily
basis, their only state of natural
happiness. No doubt, the evil genius'
evil twin contributed the snooze
button.
BLURK
I fail to see how any of this leads
to eternal damnation!
ABUM
Well, that's the beauty of it! They
fail to see it, too, because they
think they're living a so-called
normal life. And you guys have no
idea of the torments they put
themselves through for the sake of
such a life.
ABUM
They'll spend a third of every day in
a place that they can't stand, doing
stuff they don't wanna do! All in the
name of earning a living. I've seen
places in punishments in Hell less
severe.
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As Christians we just celebrated Resurrection Sunday. Let's never forget that Jesus didn't suffer, die and defeat sin and death for us to live a third of our day deceived and devoid of purpose. You are a partaker of the divine life. Those who have entered into the spiritual life are the ones who are sent into the world to continue and fulfill the work that Jesus began. The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it. "I am not asking you to remove them from the world, but to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world". "As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world" .(John 17:15-16;18)
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Millennium ends..."it suddenly dawns on the demons sitting in the donut shop that they are all the loneliest creatures on earth."
Kathy Pape
Exec. Director
Please contact us with any comments or testimonials pertaining to our question of the month. |
EQuipment...practical tools to help you live a more Christ directed life.
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Every morning when your alarm goes off and before you step out of bed, say and believe "This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it!" Do this everyday until it becomes a habit. (It is said this will take around 21 days!)
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Today and this week, when you encounter conflict or disappointment or major stress (because you are in the world), please stop and ask God..."what do you want me to learn from this?" And then allow God the opportunity to answer. He will show you the way.
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If you want to begin your day with a song in your head and your heart, please read the lyrics below and click on the link to listen and sing along:
http://www.inotof.com/radio/FirstSong.mp3
First Song That I Sing
by Sara Groves
c 2002 PW Music/ASCAP
In the morning when I rise
Help me to prioritize
All the thoughts that fill my day
Before my schedule tells me that my day is full
Before I'm off and on my way
I want to praise you
I need to praise you
Let the first song that I sing
Be praises to my God and King
Before the curtains part
Before my day is starting
Before I make up the bed
Before the snooze alarm reminds me that it's morning
Before the dreams have left my head
I want to praise you
I need to praise you
Let the first song that I sing
Be praises to my God and King
Before my feet hit the floor
I'll praise you Lord
I'll praise you Lord
Before I fill my cup
I'll lift you up
I'll lift you up
Before I start my day
I'll sing your praise
I'll sing your praise
Before I start my car
Before I get too far
I want to praise you
I need to praise you
Oh, let the first song that I sing
Be praises to my God and Kind
Let the first song that I sing be praises
Let the first song that I sing be praises
Let the first song that I sing be praises to my God and King
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