We sure are a movie-going, radio-listening, media society. Since the advent of the silver screen, and the invention of the television, we have all become starry-eyed experts on everything, it seems. We have become very comfortable with our special gift of being nigh unto God. Once upon a time, only GOD could see everything that was happening around the world. Now WE with all our technology have once again fully utilized our right of DOMINION and become GLOBAL in our awareness. From our armchair, our movie chair, our car seat, and even our bed chambers, WE WATCH THE UNIVERSE AS IT SPINS. Everything teaches us, and we LOVE it.
We can now KNOW a lot more about good and evil! We have indeed ‘become like God’. We KNOW THINGS, all kinds of things. Yet, there are several things that seem to have happened since we became so all-knowing smart. We love less, we demand more, we judge everyone and everything, we believe that whatever opinion (things we have concluded based on our all-knowing self) we hold must be right, AND we sin so much more easily now
All of a sudden, I am hearing an echo. All it is saying is: ‘in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die’. God said this to Adam, the father of the human race. He said this would happen when we ate of the tree; the one that Eve quickly realized would make her wise. We thought that those Bible references only applied to them. I wonder. Seems to me that society is dying. All this epignosis (total knowing) is making us less agapeetos (all loving?)..
Here’s a little self-test you might try out this week:
1. When you go to the movies, are you the AUDIENCE or the CRITIC or the DIRECTOR when you watch? The audience allows their heart to be affected; the critic is detached.
2. When you watch the news on the television, are you MOTIVATED TO PRAYER and compassion, or do you use it as a platform to formulate more and more opinions; soaking your self with judgment? Love would demand that you care. Do you?
3. When you watch the Pastor, Evangelist, Prophet, or Teacher on the T.V. screen do you put on your critic’s hat or open your Christian heart? Faith would demand surrender not superiority.
4. When you look at your fellow man, family member, or nearby worker, do they seem REAL to you? Or do you feel like you are looking at them through the glass pane on your eyes? We are so used to having a ‘screen’, and a ‘plate of television glass’ between humanity and us that we live like watchers. Is that how you feel?
One last thought. God’s Word shows that as HE watches, HE ALSO GETS INVOLVED. Are you in His likeness and image? Or are you just another camera broadcasting the views?
Original Copyright: © Anthony J. Massotti Th.M. Th.M. 3/18/2001